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Comprehensible changelog of the linux kernel. This page shows a summary of the important changes being added in each linux kernel release - support for new devices, new features (filesystems, subsystems), important internal changes, etc. While this text is aimed to be (unlike the full changelog) comprehensible, it's obvious that some parts will not be comprehensible for those who don't know a lot about kernel internals, just like it happens in every software project. Other places to get news about the linux kernel are [http://lwn.net/Kernel/ LWN kernel status], [http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ LWN driver porting guide], [http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/ LWN list of API changes in 2.6], or [http://www.lkml.org www.lkml.org]. Before adding things here look at the [#rules RULES] section at the end of the page! | #pragma keywords Linux, Kernel, Operating System, Linus Torvalds, Open Source, drivers, filesystems, network, memory management, scheduler, preemption, locking #pragma description Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux Kernel during the 2.6.x and 3.x development Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are [[http://lwn.net/Kernel/|LWN kernel status]] or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in [[http://www.lkml.org|www.lkml.org]] or [[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/|lore.kernel.org/lkml]]). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use `nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel` for that. List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules! |
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==== 2.6.15 and older ==== * See Linux26Changes, this page "only" tracks the current stable and development releases. |
You can discuss the latest Linux kernel changes on the [[http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/list.php?4|New Linux Kernel Features Forum]]. |
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==== 2.6.17 ==== * Still not released, see [#development below] ==== Latest stable release: 2.6.16 ==== * Released 20 March, 2006 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16 (full changelog)] * [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:IT1X2f-H0yUJ:wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 Google cache of this page] * Overview (useful for headlines): * OCFS2 (http://lwn.net/Articles/137278/, http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/), a clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle (there's [http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ GFS] from Red Hat who bought it from Sistina Software, shipped out-of-the-tree for now) * new unshare() ( http://lwn.net/Articles/135321/), pselect()/ppoll() and *at() system calls (http://lwn.net/Articles/164887/) * support the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in NUMA systems * support for the Cell processor * cpufreq support for G5s plus thermal control for dualcore G5s * improved power management support for many devices and subsystems (libata, alsa...) * mutex locking primitive * high-resolution timers (http://lwn.net/Articles/167897) * per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime * 64-to-32-bit ioctl compatibilty for the v4l2 subsystem * IPv6 support for DCCP * New TIPC protocol (Transparent Inter Process Communication, http://tipc.sourceforge.net/) used for intra-clustering communication * ACL support for CIFS filesystem * HFSX filesystem support * new configfs filesystem (which complements sysfs, not replaces it) * support for running executables from v9fs (plan9 9P distributed filesystem) * support for many new devices, improved support and features for others and lots of other changes. * '''Kernel Core changes''' * New features/frameworks * *at syscalls: introduce in total 13 new system calls which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file name. These functions (sys_openat, sys_mkdirat, sys_mknodat, sys_fchownat, sys_futimesat, sys_newfstatat, sys_unlinkat, sys_renameat, sys_linkat, sys_symlinkat, sys_readlinkat, sys_fchmodat, sys_faccessat) are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal, they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working directory (multi-threaded backup software, etc). Glibc today implements those interfaces using the /proc/self/fd magic, but this hack is rather expensive, and other operative systems like OpenSolaris [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0212/6m6nd4nc7?a=view already have some of them]. In the GNU world, coreutils are already using them, and will have lots of other users too - every program which is walking the filesystem tree will benefit [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5590ff0d5528b60153c0b4e7b771472b5a95e297 (commit)]. * Add pselect/ppoll system call implementation [http://lwn.net/Articles/176911/ (LWN article)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f72949f679df06021c9e43886c9191494fdb007 (commit)]. * Add unshare() system call. The linux kernel implements threads in a very simple and lightweight, handling them just as normal processes which happen to share resource with other threads (just like Windows and Solaris in recent Solaris versions). The clone() system call already allows to create new processes which can share different attributes (file descriptors, filesystem information, filesystem namespace, signal handlers, address space...). The unshare() system call adds a primitive to the Linux thread model that allows threads to selectively 'unshare' any resources that were being shared at the time of their creation. unshare() was [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96753366711611&w=2 conceptualized by Alexander Viro] in August of 2000. unshare() augments the usefulness of Linux threads for applications that would like to control shared resources without creating a new process. unshare() is a natural addition to the set of available primitives on Linux that implement the concept of process/thread as a virtual machine. For more info check the [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/unshare.txt Documentation]. [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cf2e340f4249b781b3d2beb41e891d08581f0e10 (commit)], implementation for unsharing file descriptors [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a016f3389c06606dd80e687942ff3c71d41823c4 (commit)], vm structure (disabled in this release by default) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0a7ec308f1be5957b20a1a535d21f683dfd83f0 (commit)], filesystem namespace [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f (commit)], filesystem info [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99d1419d96d7df9cfa56bc977810be831bd5ef64 (commit)]. [http://lwn.net/Articles/135321/ (LWN article)] * New 'mutex' locking primitive. Until now, there was two main types of locks: spinlocks and semaphores. Mutexes are like a spinlock, but you may block holding a mutex. If you can't lock a mutex, your task will suspend itself, and be woken up when the mutex is released. This means the CPU can do something else while you are waiting. There are many cases when you simply can't sleep and so have to use a spinlock instead. Semaphores can be and have been (ab)used for this same purpose, but mutexes are simpler than semaphores, and have some advantages. You cannot use mutexes the same way you can use semaphores though, e.g. they cannot be used from an interrupt context, nor can they be unlocked from a different context that which acquired it. Read the [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/mutex-design.txt documentation], or (more interesting) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=kernel/mutex.c kernel/mutex.c]; it also features some extensive debugging facilities in [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=kernel/mutex-debug.c kernel/mutex-debug.c] [http://lwn.net/Articles/165039/ (LWN article)] [http://lwn.net/Articles/167034/ (LWN article explaining the API)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6053ee3b32e3437e8c1e72687850f436e779bd49 (commit)] * High resolution timers ([http://lwn.net/Articles/167897 LWN article explaining the API)]. In contrast to the low-resolution timeout API implemented in kernel/timer.c, hrtimers provide finer resolution and accuracy depending on system configuration and capabilities. These timers are currently used for: itimers, POSIX timers, nanosleep and precise in-kernel timing. For more details read the [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/hrtimers.txt documentation] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c0a3132963db68f1fbbd0e316b73de100fee3f08 (commit)] * Swap migration. [http://lwn.net/Articles/157066/ (LWN article)] Swap migration allows the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in a NUMA system while the process is running, through swap. This means that the virtual addresses that the process sees do not change; however, the system rearranges the physical location of those pages [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=45b07ef31d1182d2cfde7711327e3afb268bb1ac (commit)]. Also, add "direct migration" support on top of the swap based page migration facility: This allows the direct migration of anonymous pages and the migration of file backed pages by dropping the associated buffers (requires writeout) and fall back to swap if necessary [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a (commit)] * Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. This is mainly useful for benchmarking, for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks without rebooting. To free pagecache: "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", to free dentries and inodes: "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", to free pagecache, dentries and inodes: "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". As this is a non-destructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the user should run `sync' first [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232 (commit)] * Implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE): This feature frees up a given range of pages and its associated backing store. Current implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return -ENOSYS [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f6b3ec238d12c8cc6cc71490c6e3127988460349 (commit)] * Per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime flags [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fc33a7bb9c6dd8f6e4a014976200f8fdabb3a45c (commit)] * EDAC support. The EDAC goal is to detect and report errors that occur within the computer system [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=da9bb1d27b21cb24cbb6a2efb5d3c464d357a01e (commit)]. Add drivers for Intel i82860, i82875 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d88a10e566d46bffc214c974e5cf5abe38d8da8 (commit)], for AMD 76x and Intel E750x, E752x [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=806c35f5057a64d3061ee4e2b1023bf6f6d328e2 (commit)] and Radisys 82600 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2f768af73fea4c70f9046388a7ff648ad11f028e (commit)] * Tweaks to the NUMA policies in the slab allocator [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dc85da15d42b0efc792b0f5eab774dc5dbc1ceec (commit)] * Implement a generic dispatch queue for all the I/O schedulers [http://lwn.net/Articles/157208/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8922e16cf6269e668123acb1ae1fdc62b7a3a4fc (commit)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b4878f245ec8e168cdd1f170f823a750b7dd4af5 (commit)] * Process scheduler * Add a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results for machines with several nodes [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=198e2f181163233b379dc7ce8a6d7516b84042e7 (commit)] * Filter affine wakeups [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6 (commit)] * Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0a9499c3dd50d333e2aedb7e894873c58da3785 (commit)] * Huge pages * Implement copy-on-write support for hugetlb mappings so MAP_PRIVATE can be supported [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1e8f889b10d8d2223105719e36ce45688fedbd59 (commit)] * Make hugepages obey cpusets [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aea47ff363c15b0be5fc27ed991b1fdee338f0a7 (commit)] * Add NUMA policy support for huge pages [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5da7ca86078964cbfe6c83efc1205904587706fe (commit)] * Performance / size optimizations * Shrink struct page in some configurations using anonymous struct [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=349aef0bc4c7f07d685c977e12d0e2d0b5d0e6db (commit)] * Shrink back the dentry struct from 136 (RCU enlarged it) to 128 bytes, to keep it a multiple of memory cache lines. As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5160ee6fc891a9ca114be0e90fa6655647bb64b2 (commit)] * Add the SLOB allocator, a configurable replacement for slab allocator. SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer, similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems who want to save some memory [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=10cef6029502915bdb3cf0821d425cf9dc30c817 (commit)] * Make vm86 support optional under CONFIG_EMBEDDED, to save about 5k of kernel size [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=64ca9004b819ab87648dbfc78f3ef49ee491343e (commit)] * configurable support for ELF core dumps, saves about 5K [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=708e9a794cf8822b760edaccd9053edb07c34d19 (commit)] * Make x86 doublefault handling optional, saves about 13 KB [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=22c4e3084eb8b88288a622a57d8b35c450a439f2 (commit)] * Make *[ug]id16 support optional, saves around 2 Kb [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e585e47031751f4e393e10ffd922885508b958dd (commit)] * Add scripts/bloat-o-meter script (python) to measure size changes in the functions of a given file [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d960600df3ce3588571e2c1adf1f5f6d8ca9eb5a (commit)] * Various changes * TTY layer buffering revamp, see the commit link [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=33f0f88f1c51ae5c2d593d26960c760ea154c2e2 (commit)] * Abandon GCC 2.9x support. It doesn't support useful features already used by some drivers like anonymous unions. Plus, no new distros are shipping with 2.9x compilers. In other words, supporting it has more disadvantages than advantages. The minium required compiler version us GCC 3.2 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd285bb54d8a3e99810090ae88cfe8ed77d1da25 (commit)] * cpuset: Provide a simple per-cpuset metric of memory pressure so batch managers monitoring jobs can efficiently detect what level of memory pressure that job is causing [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3e0d98b9f1eb757fc98efc84e74e54a08308aa73 (commit)] * Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable, as recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists. A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added. This entry controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for each per cpu page list [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8ad4b1fb8205340dba16b63467bb23efc27264d6 (commit)] * swsusp: remove the image encryption. The functionality it provides should really belong to the user space and will possibly be reimplemented after the swap-handling functionality of swsusp is moved to the user space [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f2d97f02961e8b1f8a24befb88ab0e5c886586ff (commit)] * swsusp: make suspend image size limit tunable via /sys/power/image_size. It is necessary for systems on which there is a limited amount of swap available for suspend. It can also be useful for optimizing performance of swsusp on systems with 1 GB of RAM or more. The default size is set to 500 MB [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ca0aec0f7a94bf9f07fefa8bfd23282d4e8ceb8a (commit)]. * Add list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse() [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ad42352c01788e41a33336577fdd270d8de55bb (commit)] * MD: Exposes and allow to set lots of parameters through sysfs * keys: Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=017679c4d45783158dba1dd6f79e712c22bb3d9a (commit)], and ake it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to instantiate a key. For more details, see the commit [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b5f545c880a2a47947ba2118b2509644ab7a2969 (commit)] * SPI framework, implements the model of a queue of messages which complete asynchronously (with thin synchronous wrappers on top) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8ae12a0d85987dc138f8c944cb78a92bf466cea0 (commit)] * Export cpu topology in sysfs, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/*, for more details see the commit [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69dcc99199fe29b0a29471a3488d39d9d33b25fc (commit)] * Suspend/Resume support for AMD64 GART [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=90be4b49b8b54505772a6a766ac0891ec92b4c2d (commit)], ATI [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5dda4986752b531d89d49c218682e42c63ef1d61 (commit)] and Intel 945GM [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3b0e8eadc511eaceba6d6b8d0743359a34ee23c6 (commit)] * '''Architecture-specific''' * x86 * sparsemem for single node systems: Allows SPARSEMEM to be enabled on non-numa x86 systems. This is made dependant on EXPERIMENTAL also being set [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=215c3409eed16c89b6d11ea1126bd9d4f36b9afd (commit)] * A simple driver for the CS5535 and CS5536 that allows a user-space program to manipulate GPIO pins. The CS5535/CS5536 chips are Geode processor companion devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e329113ca437e44ec399b7ffe114ed36e84ccf5e (commit)] * x86: Basic support for the AMD Geode GX and LX processors [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f90b8116032f4216d260e31f966a3585319387ac (commit)] * x86-32 / x86-64: mark rodata sections read only [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=63aaf3086baea7b94c218053af8237f9dbac5d05 (commit)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=67df197b1a07944c2e0e40ded3d4fd07d108e110 (commit)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=37b73c828185731f6236a6387c02d7b08c150810 (commit)] * kdump for x86-32/64: Add "elfcorehdr" command line option. "elfcorehdr" specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed kernel. This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools to capture kernel [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aac04b32f3e4c63f461459d0e1d6aa01caac6e66 (commit)]. Also, add memmmap command line option for x86-64, similar to i386. memmap=exactmap enables setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified by the user [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69cda7b1f06befb8d6a884b8a663d19dcaef590b (commit)] * x86-64: Support constant TSC feature in future AMD CPUs [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=130951ccb14167c20b87e8bed52b60864ed53c2b (commit)] * x86_64: Allow compilation on a 32bit biarch toolchain [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bb33421dde79f9a36d5485c56335ff178ac7d268 (commit)] * x86-64: Inclusion of ScaleMP vSMP architecture [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=79f12614a6537cc3ac9ca4d1ea26f6e4f4a34aee (commit)] * Adds the Intel ICH8 IDs [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6ebb2659065b6e03605e7f0c69449bda382261a (commit)] * PPC * SPU file system. The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (aka: Cell processors) in order to access Synergistic Processor Units (SPUs). The file system provides a name space similar to posix shared memory or message queues. Users that have write permissions on the file system can use spu_create(2) to establish SPU contexts in the spufs root. Every SPU context is represented by a directory containing a predefined set of files. These files can be used for manipulating the state of the logical SPU. For more details, read the [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt Documentation] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=67207b9664a8d603138ef1556141e6d0a102bea7 (commit)] * Add back support for booting from BootX. ARCH=powerpc couldn't boot from BootX as it uses a "different" way of getting in the kernel. This patch adds the necessary trampolines, creating a flattened device-tree from the tree passed from MacOS, and initializing the btext engine early for really-early debugging [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d7f3945420b5d8114f2d4d85e90abe5063cc196a (commit)] * Add cpufreq support for all desktop G5. This patch adds cpufreq support for all desktop "tower" G5 models [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9a699aefa87cb0379a67741926820c9271d748a9 (commit)] * Thermal control for dual core G5s ([http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ac171c46667c1cb2ee9e22312291df6ed78e1b6e (commit)] * Experimental support for new G5 Macs: This adds some very basic support for the new machines, including the Quad G5 (tested), and other new dual core based machines and iMac G5 iSight (untested). This is still experimental, there is no thermal control yet, there is no proper handing of MSIs, it just boots [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1beb6a7d6cbed3ac03500ce9b5b9bb632c512039 (commit)] * PPC32 and PPC64 kexec implementations [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3d1229d6ae92ed1994f4411b8493327ef8f4b76f (commit)] * ppc64: per cpu data optimisations [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7a0268fa1a3613f2c526a9b3058701b277f6abe1 (commit)] * IBMEBUS bus support. This adds the necessary core bus support used by device drivers that sit on the IBM GX bus on modern pSeries machines like the Galaxy infiniband for example. It provide transparent DMA ops (the low level driver works with virtual addresses directly) along with a simple bus layer using the Open Firmware matching routines [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d7a301033f1990188f65abf4fe8e5b90ef0e3888 (commit)] * G4+ oprofile support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=555d97ac87aef08bb55dff6f05e68fe2987d6f6d (commit)] * powerpc/8xx: Use 8MB D-TLB's for kernel static mapping faults, thus reducing TLB space consumed for the kernel and improving performance [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8f069b1a90bd97bf6d59a02ecabf0173d9175609 (commit)] * Make COFF zImages for old 32-bit powermacs [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=66a45dd3620ee5f913ba1af3d2dca8b9bdfa2b96 (commit)] * Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc. This makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support. It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently. Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of ARCH=ppc. (This does mean that it is no longer possible to build a 32-bit kernel for a G5) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a7fdd90bc43e3e9cb08bc1b13650024d419b89e5 (commit)]. Also, make ARCH=powerpc the default for 32-bit ppc [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=820a8ce7931d18338e5c089725ec083518da1644 (commit)] * Add platform functions interpreter along with the backends for UniN/U3/U4, mac-io, GPIOs and i2c. It adds the ability to execute those do-platform-* scripts in the device-tree (at least for most devices for which a backend is provided) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5b9ca526917b7bc7d1da3beaccb2251a8f0b5fe2 (commit)]. Add support for add/remove/update properties in firmware device tree [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=088186ded490ced80758200cf8f906ed741df306 (commit)], add add/remove/update properties in /proc/device-tree [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=898b5395e915210f41223caa30312994d64cba1d (commit)], and add support for changing properties from userspace [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=610d91511f99f0a8325ad78fb7259c454b23e65a (commit)] * Add FSL SOC library and setup code [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eed320010872a11f5255b3d076e5b4f142af553d (commit)] * Early debugging support for iSeries [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf6a7112bda99aadd6675526423a96be6b356a3d (commit)] * Add "partitionable endpoint" support. New versions of firmware introduce a new method by which the "partitionable endpoint" (the point at which the pci bus is cut) should be located [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=25e591f6dd07365cbf0b1c2454386ce597dd5e05 (commit)] * PCI error recovery infrastructure for the PPC64 pSeries systems [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=77bd741561016134d1761d6101c4f0361025062f (commit)] * Add TQM85xx (8540/8541/8555/8560) board support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a819f8ba76e81669fcc2665ac532cac650694b99 (commit)] * Add MPC834x SYS board to arch/powerpc [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d13d21ae85f64e35dcdae4d6a6286e62a38e0ab (commit)] * Add support for the PowerPC MPC83xx watchdog. The MPC83xx has a simple watchdog that once enabled it can not be stopped, has some simple timeout range selection, and the ability to either reset the processor or take a machine check [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fabbfb9e8c53416eaa4f62b957430211376c9c82 (commit)] * s390 * Add support for the hardware accelerated sha256 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0a497c17fee428604e06320272ff74415eacdc31 (commit)] and aes [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf754ae8ef8bc443c067601d9401103e4001e7c5 (commit)] crypto algorithms; also support cex2a crypto cards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=88fbf18399bde8f2900cf932acd40733dfa1effa (commit)] * qdio V=V pass-through. QDIO and Hiper Sockets processing in z/VM V=V guest environments (as well as V=R with z/VM running in LPAR mode) requires shadowing of all QDIO architecture queue elements. Especially the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs structures in the hypervisor, and the need to issue SIGA SYNC operations to observe state changes, eventually causes significant CPU processing overhead in the hypervisor. The QDIO pass-through support for V=V guests avoids the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs. This significantly reduces the hypervisor overhead for QDIO based I/O [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8129ee164267dc030b8e1d541ee3643c0b9f2fa1 (commit)] * ARM * Iomega NAS 100d network attached storage product. The NAS100D is a consumer device containing a 266MHz Intel IXP420 processor, 16MB of flash, 64MB of RAM, a 160Gb internal IDE hard disk, and 802.11b/g wireless on an Atheros mini-PCI card [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3145d8a6cc83ee15adf18f598873e53a54cd1841 (commit)] * Add pxa27x OHCI platform specific code to enable the ohci device on the pxa27x based Sharp Zaurus Cxx00 devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3125c68d70e3433c21234431a9df9e7336efa29f (commit)] * Remove EPXA10DB machine support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0fec53a24a5e5f7ba68d891b68f568b6aeafaca6 (commit)] * Support for the Atmel AT91RM9200 processor: this adds support for the Cogent CSB337 and CSB637 boards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=49978db4f39950cdaaf967e1aad4a324bdc2e180 (commit)] and the Atmel's DK and EK boards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f0a13854be269357ff70022524ec503d3cba6a32 (commit)] * Add support for the serial device for machines with Atmel AT91RM9200 processors [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1e6c9c2878c9c1f301449c78551e0b7c5f3e3ae5 (commit)] * MIPS: * Add oprofile support to 5K, 20K and 25K [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2065988e9fb1628de7958b0f7f709b93302f7b97 (commit)] * SB1: Oprofile support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c03bc121212ecb36120b118a94c1b91a2e07b7b2 (commit)] * Add support for the built-in parallel port on SGI O2 (aka IP32) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8e75f744289f0a1c38b669e39a489af460640881 (commit)] * UML * Add support for throttling and unthrottling input when the tty driver can't handle it [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e4dcee8099802c71437a15b940f66106d9f88b2f (commit)] * implement soft interrupts [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1d7173baf286c8b720f97f119ec92be43076ebde (commit)] * FRV * Implement futex operations [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5c40f7f373889930d176a515ec375b60a70b5b49 (commit)] * Make futex code compilable on nommu [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ee1dd3fee22f15728f545d266403fc977e1eb99 (commit)] * Sparc64: * Serial Console for E250 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c126cf80d450a4d0aac3de7162d4c14b5c971b24 (commit)] * Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2d7d5f05111a9d913131a2764d8b20157f8f758d (commit)] * SH: * kexec() support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9d44190eae97ad4c9ce30f1084e1b0dabd646df5 (commit)] * Add support for the hp680 backlight, as found in the hp6xx series of sh devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=06c6f90032e39d33d02ab20f32e3f3cd87f58d28 (commit)] * m32r: Support M32104UT target platform. The M32104UT is an eval board based on an uT-Engine specification. This board has an MMU-less M32R family processor, M32104. [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9287d95ea194abf32fab24c6909f8ea55ab0292f (commit)] * Alpha: convert to generic irq framework. This allows automatic SMP IRQ affinity assignment other than default "all interrupts on all CPUs" which is rather expensive. This might be useful if the hardware can be programmed to distribute interrupts among different CPUs, like Alpha does [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eee45269b0f5979c70bc151c6c2f4e5f4f5ababe (commit)] * MMU-less CPUs: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfs [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=642fb4d1f1dd2417aa69189fe5ceb81e4fb72900 (commit)]. This made possible to use SYSV IPC SHM in MMU-less configurations [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0e15190ead07056ab0c3844a499ff35e66d27cc (commit)] * IA64: Perfmon for Montecito [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9179cb65780def28770a895a4bc8fa60e903ab80 (commit)] * '''Filesystems''' * OCFS2: Clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle (Oracle-Cluster-File-System). It's general purpose extent based shared disk cluster filesystem with many similarities with ext3, support for 64 bit inode numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may also make it attractive for non-clustered use. It includes a simple heartbeat implementation for monitoring which nodes come and go and a distributed lock manager called "dlm" [http://lwn.net/Articles/137278/ (LWN article)], [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29552b1462799afbe02af035b243e97579d63350 (commit)] * Configfs: It's a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager of kernel objects, or config_items. With sysfs, an object is created in kernel (for example, when a device is discovered) and it is registered with sysfs. Its attributes then appear in sysfs, allowing userspace to read the attributes via readdir(3)/read(2). It may allow some attributes to be modified via write(2). The important point is that the object is created and destroyed in kernel, the kernel controls the lifecycle of the sysfs representation, and sysfs is merely a window on all this. Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the same system. One is not a replacement for the other [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa (commit)] * FUSE: Make the maximum size of write data configurable by the filesystem. The previous fixed 4096 limit only worked on architectures where the page size is less or equal to this. This change make writing work on other architectures too, and also lets the filesystem receive bigger write requests in direct_io mode. Normal writes which go through the page cache are still limited to a page sized chunk per request [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3ec870d524c9150add120475c8ddcfa50574f98e (commit)] * NFSv4: Allow user to set the port used by the NFSv4 callback channel with the nfs.callback_tcpport boot option [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a72b44222d222749d54b3e370d825094352e389f (commit)] * NFS: support large reads and writes on the wire. Most NFS server implementations allow up to 64KB reads and writes on the wire. The Solaris NFS server allows up to a megabyte, for instance. Now the Linux NFS client supports transfer sizes up to 1MB, too. This will help reduce protocol and context switch overhead on read/write intensive NFS workloads, and support larger atomic read and write operations on servers that support them [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=40859d7ee64ed6bfad8a4e93f9bb5c1074afadff (commit)] * v9fs: add readpage support. v9fs mmap support was originally removed to make mergin easier, but there have been requests from folks who want readpage functionality (primarily to enable execution of files mounted via 9P). This patch adds readpage support (but not writepage which contained most of the objectionable code) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=147b31cf09ee493aa71c87c0dd2eef74b6b2aeba (commit)]. Add new and more efficient multiplexer implementation [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3cf6429a26da5c4d7b795e6d0f8f56ed2e4fdfc0 (commit)] and zero copy implementation to reduce the number of copies in the data and stat paths [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=531b1094b74365dcc55fa464d28a9a2497ae825d (commit)] * ext3: external journal device as a mount option. The syntax is : "# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...", where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f (commit)] * FAT: Support Direct I/O [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e5174baaea7585760f02eef23b225847d209a8db (commit)] * RelayFS: Add support for global relay buffers. This can be used by clients to create a single global relayfs buffer instead of the default per-cpu buffers. This was suggested as being useful for certain debugging applications where it's more convenient to be able to get all the data from a single channel without having to go to the bother of dealing with per-cpu files [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e6c08367b8fc6dce6dfd1106f53f6ef28215b313 (commit)]. Also, add support for relay files in other filesystems [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=08c541a7ade230883c48225f4ea406a0117e7c2f (commit)] * XFS: make it work with SELinux [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=446ada4a03808f128e8f28daa0f103dc69d22d5b (commit)] * XFS: enable write barriers per default [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ef19dddbaf2f24e492c18112fd8a04ce116daca (commit)] * Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7339ff8302fd70aabf5f1ae26e0c4905fa74a495 (commit)] * HFS: add HFSX support which allows for case-sensitive filenames [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2179d372d9f8b5fc5c189c89bc6a565a42151b23 (commit)] * CIFS: Kerberos and CIFS ACL support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf8206791750854bc6668266b694e8fe2cacb924 (commit)], [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0a4b92c05ed02ad7abdd165823eaf4bbcb33ae5c (commit)]; and add some performance improvements [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=84afc29b185334f489975a003b128e1b15e24a54 (commit)], [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ec637e3ffb6b978143652477c7c5f96c9519b691 (commit)] * NTFS: Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=78af34f03d33d2ba179c9d35685860170b94a285 (commit)] * '''Networking''' * TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication). TIPC is a protocol designed for intra cluster communication. For more information see http://tipc.sourceforge.net [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b97bf3fd8f6a16966d4f18983b2c40993ff937d4 (commit)] * Netfilter x_tables, an abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: This tries to do the best job for unifying the data structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables, ip6_tables and arp_tables [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2e4e6a17af35be359cc8f1c924f8f198fbd478cc (commit)] * Add IFB (Intermediate Functional Block) network device: a new device to do intermediate functional block in a system shared manner. The new functionality can be grouped as: 1) qdiscs/policies that are per device as opposed to system wide. ifb allows for a device which can be redirected to thus providing an impression of sharing. 2) Allows for queueing incoming traffic for shaping instead of dropping. Packets are redirected to this device using tc/action mirred redirect construct [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=253af4235d24ddfcd9f5403485e9273b33d8fa5e (commit)] * LSM-IPSec: Security association restriction: implement per packet access control via the extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security associations to label packets. Such access controls augment the existing ones based on network interface and IP address. The former are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be spoofed. By using IPSec, the system can control access to remote hosts based on cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism. This enables access control on a per-machine basis or per-application if the remote machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to enforce the access control policy. [http://www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf paper], [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5e0f76c6bbc0d26cd9625876f7beeb7b002f39bf (commit)] * TCP BIC: CUBIC window growth (2.0). Replace existing BIC version 1.1 with new version 2.0. The main change is to replace the window growth function with a cubic function as described in http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df3271f3361b61ce02da0026b4a53e63bc2720cb (commit)] * Netfilter ip_tables: NUMA-aware allocation. Part of a performance problem with ip_tables is that memory allocation is not NUMA aware, but 'only' SMP aware (ie each CPU normally touch separate cache lines). Even with small iptables rules, the cost of this misplacement can be high on common workloads. Instead of using one vmalloc() area (located in the node of the iptables process), we now allocate an area for each possible CPU, using vmalloc_node() so that memory should be allocated in the CPU's node if possible [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=318360646941d6f3d4c6e4ee99107392728a4079 (commit)] * DCCPv6 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3df80d9320bcaea72b1b4761a319c79cb3fdaf5f (commit)] * netem: packet corruption option. It adds the ability to randomly corrupt packets with netem, useful for testing hardware offload in devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c865e5d99e25a171e8262fc0f7ba608568633c64 (commit)] * Update SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS socket option to the latest api draft [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=52ccb8e90c0ace233b8b740f2fc5de0dbd706b27 (commit)] * Add support for SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME socket option. This option will get or set the delayed ack time [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7708610b1bff4a0ba8a73733d3c7c4bda9f94b21 (commit)] * XFRM: IPsec tunnel wildcard address support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ee51b1b6cece4dad408feeb0c3c9adb9cbd9f7d9 (commit)] * '''Drivers''' * DRM: * Add i945GM PCI ID [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5457f38e01ae2d296ff49db42254679018f13fa9 (commit)] * Add X600 PCI ID [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2fed3bd7436e8988980989493c16b4983be1a800 (commit)] * libata * Suspend support, and add support for the ata_piix drivers, other drivers will be ported in the future [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9b847548663ef1039dd49f0eb4463d001e596bc3 (commit)] * Add JMicron JMB360 support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bd12097c7415c13aff53aed473eec92acd15712a (commit)] * IDE devices * IDE: MODALIAS support for autoloading of ide-cd, ide-disk, ide-floppy and ide-tape to autoload these modules depending on the probed media type of the IDE device [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=263756ec228f1cdd49fc50b1f87001a4cebdfe12 (commit)] * piix: add Intel ICH8M device IDs [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b7bed9ec44cb282425f56033e5fb5448086cd758 (commit)] * SCSI * megaraid: remove overlapping PCI ID's from the legacy driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3492b328834319c9503c0a34c50fb3f009556443 (commit)] and remove the restriction where the legacy driver could not be built alongside the newgen [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ed7e8ef7f12f5c3c8bbb85eeb0a1ded91c7c5dbf (commit)]. This means that some users of the legacy megaraid driver will find themselves unable to boot 2.6.16 until they switch to the newgen megaraid_mbox driver. * Input devices * Input: add MODALIAS input classes support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1d8f430c15b3a345db990e285742c67c2f52f9a6 (commit)] * Add support for Geyser 2 touchpads used on post Oct 2005 Apple Powerbooks to the appletouch driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e1e02c9f766e5cf20d951d35e6d2bc2683aa87ef (commit)] * Implement support for the fn key on Apple Powerbooks using USB based keyboards and makes them behave like their ADB counterparts [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eab9edd27f7ceaad6b57085817d63287bda15190 (commit)] * Add support for Cherry Cymotion keyboard [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=940824b0ac6661ff4f3b36e7bce17f681d0cbc23 (commit)] * Driver for beeper found in Linksys NSLU2 boxes. It should work on any ixp4xx based platforms [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=01387959022def72f95f4bc1341aa69e32a06b30 (commit)] * USB devices * A driver for USB ADSL modems based on the ADI eagle chipset (Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modems [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b72458a80c75cab832248f536412f386e20a93a0 (commit)] * Add USB storage support for the Nikon Coolpix 2000 camera [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=17fa6e552f2fc6bb06af767b0abf9cb642e13404 (commit)] * Add USB storage support for devices based in the alauda chip, like the Olympus MAUSB-10 and Fujifilm DPC-R1 USB Card reader/writer devices, both support XD and Smartmedia cards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e80b0fade09ef1ee67b0898d480d4c588f124d5f (commit)] * Add support for ATI/Philips USB RF remotes (eg. ATI Remote Wonder II) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=735b0cbb5bbb981d726a465c157f20976794aab0 (commit)] * Support for Posiflex PP-7000 retail USB printer [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=effac8be4e46aabf22788d24caaa1ae9c295d26d (commit)] * Support for Linksys USB200M devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5e0f76c6bbc0d26cd9625876f7beeb7b002f39bf (commit)] * Add support for CA-42 clone cable (www.ca-42.com) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=838b42814c640ddcc378ba29cd31ffd64fb36bc5 (commit)] * usb-storage support for SONY DSC-T5 still camera [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ec7dc8d254985dc4a31858c2c7c7029290e223dd (commit)] and Rio Karma [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=abb02fdf83f981f2511b3772db6e106845c70ad9 (commit)] * ftdi: Two new ATIK based USB astronomical CCD cameras, ATIK-ATK16C and ATIK-ATK16HRC. These devices are also USB Astronomical CCD cameras that work through an FTDI 245BM chip, share the same base hardware but, it has a colour CCD chip instead of a grayscale one [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=09c280a24650ff74e713742e94120fdf7765cda8 (commit)] * ftdi_sio: Support two POS printers made by Westrex International (Model 777 and Model 8900F) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a94b52ac84828e193d18c96c1334c9997b524a35 (commit)] * Network devices * hostap: allow flashing firmware [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a485cde662f5b6b2299ee01a7e9e2c11683f807b (commit)] * New experimental driver for the Marvell Yukon2 Gigabit Ethernet chipset. This driver is based on the skge driver, but using the logic from the Syskonnect version of the sk98lin driver. It should support all the Yukon2 chipsets that are available in many current Intel and AMD motherboards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cd28ab6a4e50a7601d22752aa7ce0c8197b10bdf (commit)] * sky2: add hardware VLAN acceleration support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d1f1370863f7fa3d76dc7d7779debdda854a5a60 (commit)], MII ioctl interface [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ef743d3359813795fb38c4308bff2311eb30651f (commit)], add Yukon-EC ultra support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a5b1ea026572ac0e5e03d7322deb546d60f9e6e (commit)] * Add Wake on LAN support to sis900 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ea37ccea66e6bdd9f3571418b6461850088c114e (commit)] * Implements the UFO (feature merged in 2.6.15) support in S2io driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fed5eccdcf542742786701b2514b5cb7ab282b93 (commit)] * Intel ixp2000 network driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=15d014d13149aedd76cbff1b5c3bbfe839391457 (commit)] * ipw2100: support WEXT-18 enc_capa v3. This patch allows ipw2100 driver to advertise the WPA-related encryption options that it does really support. It's necessary to work correctly with Network Manager and other programs that actually check driver & card capabilities [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=166c3436d683cfe5316c7723ed746a93db053f12 (commit)] * Add support for the Intel IXDP2351 to the CS89x0 driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9c878967d32a10cb604718f7608efa0ea3d8b596 (commit)] * mv643xx_eth: Add multicast support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=16e0301831767ee1b8e5e022cc08e76f9f8a8938 (commit)] * e1000: Added hardware support for PCI express, 82546GB( Quad Copper) and 82571 Fiber [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b7ee49db8b4b21dad3284d5507e7ea2946031f6e (commit)] * e1000: Added disable packet split capability [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=35ec56bb78fda9c88cd1ad30e048ce5b4398d33f (commit)] * ieee80211: Fix some of the ieee80211 crypto related code so that instead of having the host fully do crypto operations, the host_build_iv flag works properly (for WEP in this patch) which, if turned on, requires the hardware to do all crypto operations, but the ieee80211 layer builds the IV. The hardware also has to build the ICV [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a4bf26f30e398afa293b85103c885f03d4660a07 (commit)] * Sound devices * Add power management support for ak4531 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=11d3824ad7d6240d7ce44bdf1d9e81e62a903f72 (commit)], ens137x [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fe8be10786c040bce53c18048d75b1b23aec64ae (commit)], emu10k1 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=09668b441dacdf4640509b640ad73e24efd5204f (commit)], fm801 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b1e9ed26a9e472548a63a59014708fdae013b7a3 (commit)], cmipci [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb60e5f5b2b19284479825cdaa6dd6b7078cf5d2 (commit)], SB16/AWE [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5bdb6a1629408f657f5f2c42b3c07c689c411499 (commit)], als4000 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=703529140cfb774366b839f38f027f283cb948b4 (commit)], es968 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7a8fef1f95e563a93c7d70048b63c1ca20685a1b (commit)], AD1848 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c66d7f72569e304acc134b2561b148fe7c23c0f7 (commit)], als100 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=480615f33fa48e1a4db33e40b21d4009250f5b23 (commit)], DT019x [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e2fa213591518bb1387f6042b8572c76ecdc6c6e (commit)], azt2320 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6cc25cae365bada36c9f006e314b998eb2c5e7c (commit)] * emu10k1: enable side surround channels for Audigy2 EX [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2f020aa71197eddef749ad6202ca5a66c0c6e382 (commit)], add support for Audigy 2 subsystem 2006 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f6f8bb642350dafc21676ccd4fab333282064b8d (commit)], partial support for Creative emu1212m [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=19b99fbaed2e2971b756311435c67e84431d8515 (commit)], entry for SB Live 5.1 Digital OEM (SB0220) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8ee72952bd7bd21df944ef1512a1e582abe0528 (commit)] * via82xx: add dxs entry for MSI KT800 Delta-FSR [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c1b8f5f0e4aabd4b47648dd9465fb750e07da9fb (commit)] * Add support for the CS5535 Audio device [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9b4ffa48ae855c8657a36014c5b0243ff69f4722 (commit)] * hda-codec: add AD1988 support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd66e0d0591dd12eb0bea1e9f3aa194bb93cebbd (commit)], support of ALC262, ALC883, ALC885, ALC861 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df694daa3c0135202e4702cb2d11e68a43f6c51e (commit)], add the model entry (ALC880 6stack) for ASUS P5GD1-HVM [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7632c7b4443057e1294208a0d9a55d8558f2f6ca (commit)] * ice1724: add support of M-Audio Revolution 5.1 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=59acf76e0268e3f0156ef5113e89d838a8c02bb6 (commit)] * Add Digigram PCXHR driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e12229b4d2b7863b1baaeca759aa87703bf9fdf8 (commit)] * via82xx: add dxs entry for P4m800/VIA8237R [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=802c00f2f3700423df06a1149c23cd60dd59159c (commit)] * hda-codec: Add support for the Sigmatel STAC927x HDA codec family [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3cc08dc6ea677ed4e843120aa070e145b6781a4b (commit)] * hda-codec: Add Sigmatel HDA support for the Intel D975XBK motherboard [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d62c40e04cfcec3cef8093bd79d72fe86c8f2195 (commit)] * hda-codec: Add support for Agere's variant of Si3054/5 based HDA modem [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e061bf1aa3af8a3f2ae7e1b5f8a110eae7936615 (commit)] * V4L/DVB * Add support for the remote control receiver inside the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital, and a keymap for the MCE remote bundled with it [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c239703a942117c3446ca06af537fc3ea12fb24 (commit)] * Support for DVB reception on the PCI half of the DViCO DVB-T Dual Digital [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43eabb4e2284146f8bfae8730ae41c218b724b7d (commit)] * Add support for Lifeview FlyDVB Trio [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4aa6ba513e28884b56bac529553a47a6b160c310 (commit)] * Added digital support for cx88 (cx88-alsa) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b7f355d23c34399ccfd54fd613c306ab4a788234 (commit)] * Add Kworld/Vstream Xpert DVB-T card with cx22702 tuner [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f39624fda00d2a30d31f0fa06153e9b460295676 (commit)] * Add support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=effee0333b6090ff4ff0463e8fb6084cf4406bbd (commit)] * Added support for VP-3054 (aka Digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro!) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fc40b261db15d010455ad0a4e2ac59da2ced730f (commit)] * Add remote for Compro Videomate Gold+ Pal version [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2a9a9a84f2ac6e4481f564c42a9268477465c359 (commit)] * Enable remote control on AVERTV STUDIO 303 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=899ad11b55206c30db7e3667d14c8bdb167f51f8 (commit)] * Adding support for the Hauppauge HVR1100 and HVR1100-LP products [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=611900c1858747a87657eb405ebab5b1e72bb57c (commit)] * Add support for KWorld DVB-S 100, based on the same chips as Hauppauge [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1c956a3ac087b7590296f5a0be2cdab2666158cd (commit)] * Enable IR support for the Nova-S-Plus [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fb56cb65e4b737c93727ea296050e8d24eb7cb42 (commit)] * Added Hauppauge ImpactVCB board [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cd1257d860f6ee09b589723a5d3888b1fed46487 (commit)] * Added V4L support for the Nova-S-Plus and Nova-SE2 DVB-S products [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0fa14aa6214823bb013b598add866e277a7efe28 (commit)] * Added basic support (tv + radio) for Terratec Cinergy 250 PCI [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f639c9b21b763441bd6bd76185be6d2504d83d54 (commit)] * Added SECAM L' video standard [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f3c5987a386300abea9854b32814d0eab7af7841 (commit)] * Adds 32-bit compatibility for v4l2 framegrabber ioctls [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cf664a6458b254ce665d129c0960cff4f32b91f3 (commit)] * Add support for DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T USB devices [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8bf134d5f697311c04e867b6733d047a4b55a12 (commit)] * Add bttv card MagicTV (rebranded MachTV) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2d05ae6b5b77f063aa0f82cf0570f3e4b80b367c (commit)] * Added remote control support for pinnacle pctv [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=366cc64b0d9ac922ac4f0f54e06c13ec95249928 (commit)] * Add support for Samsung tuner TCPN 2121P30A, used in Hauppauge PVR-500 cards [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b3d37042d7d33baf0247d1df31031e64427f39b3 (commit)] * Add support for Galaxis DVB-S rev1.3 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ead9bd1079b4b7ba45589f6495e79ec50237aed (commit)] * Add standard for South Korean NTSC-M using A2 audio, South Korea uses NTSC-M but with A2 audio instead of BTSC [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0dfd812d4b2afc797310943b451608d347854e76 (commit)] * Add IR support to KWorld DVB-T (cx22702-based) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a77a922fcc56fe44fd8f65c041a52ff48474fafe (commit)] * Add support to ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers made by Etoms Electronics [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ce08c93e388922e25a96a7d9895784182e4c72c (commit)] * Various * 8xx PCMCIA: support for MPC885ADS and MPC866ADS [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1371d3be045a6a1a8b828b838069b5fe6e0ab4c6 (commit)] * Geode LX HW RNG Support: adds support to hw_random for the Geode LX HRNG device [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a7a4ad0998dcd682f4968e8ec5fc1259914a1c4a (commit)] * i2c-nforce2 add nforce4 MCP-04 device ID [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c72ccf09b6debe55b8e049377ad3183ed4f4cb3 (commit)] * i2c: Add support for Barco LPT->DVI to i2c-parport [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1d26f455eb0db0bf4d4b7177547f4310b645a32a (commit)] * hwmon: New vt8231 driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1de9e371b89e1cf4da123f0d92efa8eb134ca5e8 (commit)] * New character device driver for the Synclink GT and Synclink AC families of synchronous and asynchronous serial adapters [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=705b6c7b34f2621f95f606d0e683daa10cdb8eb9 (commit)] * Add "bpp" boot option to nvidiafb to specify at what depth color the kernel must boot [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ade9185a39aa2bc51f95b4899836e59df671d844 (commit)] * Add support for the watchdog timer built into the EPX-C3 single board computer manufactured by Winsystems, Inc [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eed6565f70ce3fc958e5a3483c48fc4a8e111bdc (commit)] * Serial: make the number of UARTs registered configurable at compile time [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a61c2d78ce61e67baf27c43f6721db87a27ac762 (commit)] * Add 8250 support for Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d9004eb466d03b7900ed432fecec6819012b4ed3 (commit)] * Altix: Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2d0cfb527944c2cfee2cffab14f52d483e329fcf (commit)] * Add f71805f hwmon driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e53004e20a58e9d28347e02adccb37a33e0d771a (commit)] [[Anchor(development)]] ==== 2.6.17 ==== * /!\ '''STILL NOT RELEASED!''' /!\ * Overview * sys_splice syscall * X86 "SMP alternatives" (optimize the kernel image at runtime, ej: switch between different spinlock implementations depending on the system where the kernel is run or on cpu hotplug/remove) [http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/ (LWN article)] * Lightweight robust futexes [http://lwn.net/Articles/172149/ (LWN article)] * Block queue IO tracing * User-space software suspend interface * New scheduler domain which optimizes scheduling decisions for multi-core CPUs sharing caches * Generic RTC subsystem * Raid5 reshaping support [http://lwn.net/Articles/169140/ (LWN article)] * iptables support for H.323 protocol, 64-to-32bit compatibility for 32-bit iptables userspace tools running in a 64-bit kernel * 64-to-32-bit socket ioctl compatibility * Add support for Router Preference (RFC4191), Router Reachability Probing (RFC4191) and experimental support for Route Information Option in RA (RFC4191) in IPV6 * CCID2 support for DCCP * '''Kernel Core changes''' * Core * Introduce the sys_splice() system call. A pipe is used as small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The idea and first implementation were done by Linus Torvalds [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110507985702357&w=2 (mail)], [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110511497731192&w=2 (mail)], [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110511787707447&w=2 (mail)]. It's a "better sendfile()", it can take input from anything (not just file -> socket) that just has "splice_read()", and move it to anything else, without doing any extra copies of the data. For example, a digital video camera could stream to both a file and live video (or something else) without doubling the buffering and doing memcpy [http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d (commit)] * Add a new scheduler domain for representing multi-core with shared caches between cores. This makes possible to make clever cpu scheduling decisions on such systems, improving performance greatly for some cases (see commit) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1e9f28fa1eb9773bf65bae08288c6a0a38eef4a7 (commit)] * Lightweight robust futexes: if a process exits prematurely while holding a pthread_mutex_t lock shared with some other process (e.g. yum segfaults or it's kill -9-ed), then waiters for that lock need to be notified that the last owner of the lock exited in some irregular way. This creates a API to fix that [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/robust-futexes.txt Documentation], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt ABI documentation], [http://lwn.net/Articles/172149/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e9056f13bfcdd054a0c3d730e4e096748d8a363a (commit 1)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0771dfefc9e538f077d0b43b6dec19a5a67d0e70 (commit 2)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dfd4e3ec246355274c9cf62c6b04a1ee6fa3caba (commit 3)] * Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace). This allows users to see any traffic happening on a block device queue. In other words, you can get very detailed stadistics of what your disks are doing. User space support tools available in: git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/blktrace.git [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2056a782f8e7e65fd4bfd027506b4ce1c5e9ccd4 (commit)] * Cpuset memory spread implementation: Alternative memory allocation policy, if enabled it spreads out these kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing. All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA mempolicy [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=825a46af5ac171f9f41f794a0a00165588ba1589 (commit 1), [[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=44110fe385af23ca5eee8a6ad4ff55d50339097a (commit 2)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b6a9316fab51af611dc8671f296734089f6a22a (commit 3)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=101a50019ae5e370d73984ee05d56dd3b08f330a (commit 4)] * sync_file_range() syscall [http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f79e2abb9bd452d97295f34376dedbec9686b986 (commit)] * Introduce a user space interface for swsusp [http://lwn.net/Articles/153203/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e1819d615f24ce0726a7d0bd3dd0152d7b21654 (commit)], [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f577eb30afdc68233f25d4d82b04102129262365 (commit)] * CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO: Generates frame unwind information [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=604bf5a216e7f2d97cdf62614ca1281921531040 (commit)] * Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50% [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0c9e63fd38a2fb2181668a0cdd622a3c23cfd567 (commit)] * Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack instead of using kmalloc for small fd sets, an old optimization from Linux 2.0 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=70674f95c0a2ea694d5c39f4e514f538a09be36f (commit)] * Implement /proc/slab_allocators [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=871751e25d956ad24f129ca972b7851feaa61d53 (commit)] * New /proc file /proc/self/mountstats, where mounted file systems can export information (configuration options, performance counters, and so on) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b4629fe2f094b719847f31be1ee5ab38300038b2 (commit)] * APIs * Deprecate the use of MS_VERBOSE and replace it with MS_SILENT [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9b04c997b1120feefa1e6ee8e2902270bc055cd2 (commit)] * Add API for flushing Anon pages [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=03beb07664d768db97bf454ae5c9581cd4737bb4 (commit)] * Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a3a5a98b6422d05c39eaa32c8b3f83840c7b768 (commit)] * 2TB files: Add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks. This enables you to make the size of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF. On h8300, i386, mips, powerpc, s390 and sh that define sector_t, blkcnt_t is defined as u64 if CONFIG_LSF is enabled; otherwise it is defined as unsigned long. On other architectures, it is defined as unsigned long [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0f62ac6362c168754cccb36f196b3dfbddc3bc3 (commit)] * for_each_possible_cpu: defines for_each_possible_cpu, a for-loop over cpu_possible_map. for_each_online_cpu is for-loop cpu over cpu_online_map [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=631d6747e1d877a4baa924cb373b8b9511a53e5e (commit)] * unify page_to_pfn(),pfn_to_page(): There are 3 memory models, FLATMEM, DISCONTIGMEM, SPARSEMEM and each arch has its own page_to_pfn(), pfn_to_page() for each models [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a117e66ed45ac0569c039ea60bd7a9a61e031858 (commit)] * Notifier chain: Introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e041c683412d5bf44dc2b109053e3b837b71742d (commit)] * add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(): This patch adds the ability to mark symbols that will be changed in the future, so that kernel modules that don't include MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") and use the symbols, will be flagged and printed out to the system log [http://lwn.net/Articles/171838/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f28bb7e1d0188a993403ab39b774785892805e1 (commit)] * Permit Dual-MIT/GPL licenses [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7529c301165079d0f149d0e54724829e602f8fc0 (commit)] * CFQ: * Seek and async performance tuning [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=206dc69b31ca05baac68c75b8ed2ba7dd857d273 (commit)] * Change cfq io context linking from list to tree: Improves performance on setups with many disks [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e2d74ac0664c89757bde8fb18c98cd7bf53da61c (commit)] * Generic RTC subsystem: This allows users to plug one or more RTCs to the system [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=drivers/rtc code)]. This removes a number of drivers under drivers/i2c which are implemented in this new subsystem [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6fc7f10cee28c7fa190920fefda8c696d5bf3074 (commit)]. * Remove RTC UIP synchronization [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=63732c2f37093d63102d53e70866cf87bf0c0479 (commit)] * debugfs: Add debugfs_create_blob() helper for exporting binary data [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd308bc355a1aa4f202fe9a3133b6c676cb9606c (commit)] * relayfs: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b86ff981a8252d83d6a7719ae09f3a05307e3592 (commit)] * relay: add sendfile() support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=221415d76231d9012871e6e6abcbad906c46626a (commit)] * Enable mprotect on huge pages [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380 (commit)] * Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution happens on different nodes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b500531e6f5f234ed267bd7060ee06d144faf0ca (commit)] * strndup_user(): This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=96840aa00a031069a136ec4c55d0bdd09ac6d3a7 (commit)] * msync(): perform dirty page levelling [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9c50823eebf7c256b92b4e0f02b5fb30e97788c2 (commit)] * kbuild * Improved modversioning support for external modules [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=040fcc819a2e7783a570f4bdcdd1f2a7f5f06837 (commit)] * Support building individual files for external modules [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=06300b21f4c79fd1578f4b7ca4b314fbab61a383 (commit)] * Mark unwind info for signal trampolines using the new S augmentation flag in recent GCCs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=da2e9e1ff40c863a12803c32209baaded3512433 (commit)] * vt: Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and restore it after resume [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ca07731e495584bd84dca15a0f065470d594ec4 (commit)] * Removes the support for pps [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5ddcfa878d5b10b0ab94251a4229a8a9daaf93ed (commit)] * '''Architecture-specific''' * x86 32/64 * SMP "alternatives" for x86-32. This features detects the configuration of the system at boot time, and patches certain instructions in the kernel image on the fly with optimized versions for UP or SMP, depending on what system is running. This is useful for distros, who can provide a single kernel which auto-optimizes itself for UP or SMP environments. The feature can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP. The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug (which may be useful in virtualized environments to hot-add/remove CPUs in virtualized guests in reaction to load changes in the host) [http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9a0b5817ad97bb718ab85322759d19a238712b47 (commit)] * Make CONFIG_REGPARM enabled by default. With this option, GCC passes the first 3 function parameters in registers. It's a noticable win both for size and for performance, and gcc[34] handles it correctly [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b824eb605ccba995fd32c6590aed365f93d48002 (commit)] * Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels. The upcomming gcc 4.2 got a new option -mtune=generic to tune code for both common AMD and Intel CPUs. Use this option when available for generic kernels. On x86-64 it is used with CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU. On i386 it is enabled with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC. It won't affect the base line CPU support in any ways and also not the minimum supported CPU [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dca99a38bccceda9e079d4c95abefbd9028605fe (commit)] * Increase the variability of the process stack on x86-64 for now. 8 MB is not really very random, use 1GB (or more with larger page sizes) instead[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=913bd906019514579b3c7ec5ab9c463e89207a57 (commit)] * Allow disabling the "sep" feature (X86_FEATURE_SEP) at boot. This forces use of the int80 vsyscall, useful mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4f88651125e2ca8b106b6f65b65ea45776517bf3 (commit)] * "make isoimage" support, FDINITRD= support. This adds a "make isoimage" to i386 and x86-64, which allows the automatic creation of a bootable CD image. It also adds an option FDINITRD= to include an initrd of the user's choice in generated floppy- or CD boot images [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=841b8a46bffec232377d2de157f971e812be4fe4 (commit)] * kprobes-booster [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=311ac88fd2d4194a95e9e38d2fe08917be98723c (commit)] * Remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f45e4656ac0609437267b242953c07d523649f8d (commit)] * PPC * Numa: Support sparse online node map. The powerpc numa code unconditionally onlines all nodes from 0 to the highest node id found, regardless of whether cpus or memory are present in the nodes, which wastes 8K per node and complicates some cpu and memory hotplug situations, such as adding a resource that doesn't map to one of the nodes discovered at boot. Instead, this feature set nodes online as resources are scanned, and falls back to node 0 only when we're sure this isn't a NUMA machine [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=482ec7c403d239bb4f1732faf9a14988094ce08b (commit)] * Implement accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit powerpc kernels. Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode, we also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts accurately. This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, if that is not set, tick-based approximate accounting is done as before [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c6622f63db86fcbd41bf6fe05ddf2e00c1e51ced (commit)] * Support for the physmapped flash on m8xx [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=076d022c566fddde41fd4a858dd24bacad8304d7 (commit)] * Add PCI support for 8540 ADS [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8080d5497146d5d27d9e8e78229d1adc7fe280cf (commit)] * Add platform support for MPC834x USB controllers [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b10cfd40e3fa1c1663b9c9fa22260d41e669c6f (commit)] * Add oprofile calltrace support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6c6bd754bf43d59756f094de144ecac239629dda (commit)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa465f8c7008c6cab32b05f3f1af57f7c86e8873 (commit)] * Add hvc backend for rtas, needed to get console output on those boards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f4d1749e9570d3984800c371c6e06eb35b9718b1 (commit)] * spufs * Enable SPE problem state MMIO access [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6df10a82f8de89c66eb91c371d62d76e87b2cbba (commit)] * Allow SPU code to do syscalls. An SPU does not have a way to implement system calls itself, but it can create intercepts to the kernel. This uses the method defined by the JSRE interface for C99 host library calls from an SPU to implement Linux system calls. It uses the reserved SPU stop code 0x2104 for this, using the structure layout and syscall numbers for ppc64-linux [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2dd14934c9138c562d93c501e88c6d6f061eb8ba (commit)] * Adds support for the LITE5200B, the new development board for the Freescale MPC5200 processor. It has two PCI slots and so a different PCI IRQ routing [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8dd311982c86141f4f2fd326c0edf0c2d9fd97b (commit)] * Adds support for the PCI hostbridge in MPC5200B [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5931c4350059ce9bd5fe398b628c478753a11e44 (commit)] * Implement mfc access for PPE-side DMA: This adds a new file called 'mfc' to each spufs directory. The file accepts DMA commands that are a subset of what would be legal DMA commands for problem state register access. Upon reading the file, a bitmask is returned with the completed tag groups set [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a33a7d7309d79656bc19a0e96fc4547a1633283e (commit)] * ARM * Add support for the new XScale v3 core. It's an ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions: L2 cache, I/O coherency support (on select chipsets), Low-Locality reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache), supersections (v6 compatible), 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible), single instruction cache line clean/invalidate, LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=23bdf86aa06ebe71bcbf6b7d25de9958c6ab33fa (commit)] * Add support for the Intel ixp23xx series of CPUs and support for the ADI Engineering Roadrunner, Intel IXDP2351, and IP Fabrics Double Espresso platforms. The ixp23xx is an XSC3 based CPU with 512K of L2 cache, a 64bit 66MHz PCI interface, two DDR RAM interfaces, QDR RAM interfaces, two gigabit MACs, two 10/100 MACs, expansion bus, four microengines, a Media and Switch Fabric unit almost identical to the one on the ixp2400, two xscale (8250ish) UARTs and a bunch of other stuff [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c4713074375c61f939310b04e92090afe29810dc (commit)] * proc-v6: page table walks with outer-cacheable attribute, and enable no-execute in page tables [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3747b36eeab93d8969e86987bbc1d44971229b26 (commit)] * Add support for the Cirrus ep93xx series of CPUs. The ep93xx is an ARM920T based CPU with two VICs, PL010 based UARTs, IrDA, Maverickcrunch floating point coprocessor, between 24 and 64 GPIOs, ethernet, OHCI USB and, depending on the model, pcmcia, raster engine, graphics accelerator, IDE controller and a bunch of other stuff. Add the core ep93xx support code, and support for the Glomation GESBC-9312-sx and the Technologic Systems TS-72xx SBCs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e7736d47a11a771ba87314be563b2cb6b8d11d14 (commit)] * ep93xx: Add GPIO interrupt support for the first 16 GPIO lines (port A and B ) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bd20ff5793b4ece4fa3e9e0fcf8e6bbd93526215 (commit)] * Add support for Intel's IXDP28x5 platform. This is just and IXDP2801 with a new CPU rev [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0328ad23cfd8a0501f44a1b83e49d5b0e47e2b3c (commit)] * s3c2410: Support for Simtec IM2440D20 CPU modules (Osiris) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=110d322b29c08d8cf1dba599fd45ad2b9752a4bb (commit)] * s3c24xx: Add USB bus clock source [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=36c64af4e013ddf44c44298f50ff138ef1e2e7b7 (commit)] * Battery support for sharp zaurus sl-5500 (collie). Collie slowly charges battery even with charging disabled, so fast charge is not enabled yet [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=48a03ae863e0031def037fc828d7ea1a29b6fb7b (commit)] * Add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e9937d4b0a9382c4c78411d1c53e62be396ee9a9 (commit)] * Adds support for the Ethernet controller integrated in the Atmel AT91RM9200 SoC processor. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d4b7780ea1d2e08410fcc9963a57254147ae577a (commit)] * Add Cirrus EP93xx AMBA PL010 serial support: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aee85fe8e8143d3f54d9e6d3c6cdd40ead563267 (commit)] * Add a driver for the on-chip watchdog on the cirrus ep93xx series of ARM CPUs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f52ac8fec8a13e207f675b0c16e0d5f800c1c204 (commit)] * Adds support for the LED(s) on the AT91RM9200-based boards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cc2832a1313340ff1de55f15fac5b7fe48fa2a72 (commit)] * Adds support for the I/O coherent cache available on the xsc3 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=23759dc6430428897a36c4d493f611eca55c9481 (commit)] * Add pci slave support for ixp23xx [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=532bda5d9cd2f94a9e374765c23858c7d8641f66 (commit)] * SD/MMC support for i.MX/MX1 SD/MMC controller [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=56ca904053ab14ba4067a72b69a5edf246771209 (commit)] * Support for 2.6 (MMC/SD driver) on the Atmel AT91RM9200 processor [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=65dbf34393f7b3d20e993d9651a825df0fa5376b (commit)] * Allow un-muxed syscalls to be available for everyone. It's been a while since the un-muxed socket and ipc syscalls were introduced, so make the unistd.h number definitions visible for non-EABI as well as EABI [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d53ace70052b5c0a08a4f92993c0614f84920abf (commit)] * nommu: Adds MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=10c2df65060e1ab57b2f75e0749de0ee9b8f4810 (commit)] * nommu: Add nommu specific Kconfig and MMUEXT variable in Makefile [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8c07de6beac55c3273cbd679bfa67555ef14ef5 (commit)] * backlight: Generalise to support other Sharp SL hardware, this enables the driver to support other Zaurus hardware, specifically the SL-6000x (Tosa) model [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c0f5fb08e8ad59f396b1bda41ccd93cbb00a09f (commit)] * PARISC * Add PREEMPT support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=50a34dbd612925f2ec55b1781632835ef36b97d5 (commit)] * Enable ioremap functionality unconditionally [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29ef8295327653ff09a56285c35213cd31fa54b3 (commit)] * Add CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP to conditionally enable ioremap [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b8ce0aadcdebbaf5ec013c57e2a0803060817bcc (commit)] * MIPS: * Add early console for Cobalt [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e87dddeb92618d9dbb8b9f946a193739a4447609 (commit)] * Remove obsoleted serial au1x00_uart driver as announced in feature-removal-schedule.txt [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=335bd9dff31d042b773591933d3ee5bd62d5ea27 (commit)] * UML: * Add hotplug memory support to UML, see details in the commit [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=02dea0875b0f9b331a65fd6097dfd6115ca4ef24 (commit)] * Implement {get,set}_thread_area for i386 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aa6758d4867cd07bd76105ade6177fe6148e559a (commit)] * Sparc64: Add support for the Niagara platform (CPU, PCI devices, hypervisor, hypervisor serial console, etc) which includes a big rewrite of some parts of the sparc64 architecture [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c4a1745aa09fc110afdefea0e5d025043e348bae (commit)] * IA64: * Support for cpu0 removal [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ff741906ad3cf4b8ca1a958acb013a97a6381ca2 (commit)] * Export cpu cache info by sysfs: Export 8 attributes of cpu cache info under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexX: 1) level 2) type 3) coherency_line_size 4) ways_of_associativity 5) size 6) shared_cpu_map 7) attributes 8) number_of_sets: number_of_sets=size/ways_of_associativity/coherency_line_size [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f19180056ea09ec6a5d32e741234451a1e6eba4d (commit)] * S390: * Channel path measurements: Gather extended measurements for channel paths from the channel subsystem and expose them to userspace via a sysfs attribute [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=495a5b45ac33b8fe2c49780fdbcc8014cb6d6ddc (commit)] * '''Filesystems''' * Ext3 * Support for multiple block allocation in ext3-get-blocks() [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b47b24781c59565f45acd765dc995a752d561e96 (commit)] * "nobh" writeback support for filesystems blocksize < pagesize [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0e9285233a32edf267d27cd03fe0056951422cf (commit)] * XFS * Introduces multi-level in-core file extent [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0293ce3a9fd1b34c933a96577a8ba737b681cf75 (commit)] * Reenable the noikeep (delete inode cluster space) option by default [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e15f195cfb2fb1f2af0fdfc21277643deb26c0df (commit)] * Reorganize some of the in-core file extent:[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4eea22f01bb4fdba1aab4430c33adbe88d9d4985 (commit)] * JFS * Add uid, gid, and umask mount options. OS/2 doesn't initialize the uid, gid, or unix-style permission bits, the uid, gid, & umask mount options perform pretty much like those for the fat file system, overriding what is stored on disk. This is useful for users sharing the file system with OS/2 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69eb66d7da7dba2696281981347698e1693c2340 (commit)] * Add ext2 inode attributes for jfs. To see the type of inode attributes implemented see the commit [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa3241d24cf1182b0ffb6e4d412c3bc2a2ab7bf6 (commit)] * Reenable write barriers by default [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3bbcc8e3976f8bba2fd607c8850d7dfe7e332fda (commit)] * Provide support for the splice syscall [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1b895840ce93fd2d150a86c800a3085eaab4eb9e (commit)] * NFS * Add I/O performance counters [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=91d5b47023b608227d605d1e916b29dd0215bff7 (commit)] * Introduce mechanism for tracking NFS client metrics. Add a per-superblock performance counter facility to the NFS client. This facility mimics the counters available for block devices and for networking. Expose these new counters via the new /proc/self/mountstats interface [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d9ef5a8c26aab09762afce43df64736720b4860e (commit)] * Use UNSTABLE + COMMIT for NFS O_DIRECT writes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fad61490419b3e494f300e9b2579810ef3bcda31 (commit)] * Add RPC I/O statistics to /proc/self/mountstats [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ece3a2d18fd7fe1d4972284a8c98c569020093f (commit)] * SUNRPC: add a handful of per-xprt counters, monitor generic transport events [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=262ca07de4d7f1bff20361c1353bb14b3607afb2 (commit)] * SUNRPC: track length of RPC wait queues which will eventually be exported to userland via the RPC iostats interface [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e19b63dafdf7d615b0d36b90990a07e7792b9d3a (commit)] * SUNRPC: introduce per-task RPC iostats [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ef759a2e54ed434b2f72b52a14edecd6d4eadf74 (commit)] * SUNRPC: provide a mechanism for collecting stats in the RPC client [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=11c556b3d8d481829ab5f9933a25d29b00913b5a (commit)] * CIFS * Add posix (advisory) byte range locking support to cifs client: Samba (version 3) server support for this is also currently being done. This client code is in an experimental path (requires enabling /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental) while it is being tested [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=08547b036b8445e2318e14f1f03308105b01fc5b (commit)] * Readdir perf optimizations part 1 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d47d7c1a850b867047fe17140fabd0376894e849 (commit)] * NTFS: Add support for sparse files which have a compression unit of 0 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0646a1f04f1ec4c7514e5b00496b54e054a2c99 (commit)] * SELinux/audit * Disable the automatic labeling of new inodes on disk when no policy is loaded. Discussion in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180296 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8aad38752e81d1d4de67e3d8e2524618ce7c9276 (commit)] * Add a slab cache for the SELinux inode security struct [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7cae7e26f245151b9ccad868bf2edf8c8048d307 (commit)] * Hardwire important SE Linux events to the audit system [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=af601e4623d0303bfafa54ec728b7ae8493a8e1b (commit)] * Audit string fields interface + consumer [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93315ed6dd12dacfc941f9eb8ca0293aadf99793 (commit)] * Add tty to syscall audit records [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a6c043a887a9db32a545539426ddfc8cc2c28f8f (commit)] * Add a little more information to the add/remove rule message emitted by the kernel [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5d3301088f7e412992d9e61cc3604cbdff3090ff (commit)] * More filter rule comparators. Currently, audit only supports the "=" and "!=" operators in the -F filter rules, add ">", ">=", "<", and "<=" [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b63862f46547487388e582e8ac9083830d34f058 (commit)] * Send an audit event when a network interface goes into promiscuous mode [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5bdb98868062c1b14025883049551af343233187 (commit)] * '''Networking''' * IPV6 * Add support for Router Preference (RFC4191) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ebacaaa0fdf4402cdf4c8e569f54af36b6f0aa2d (commit)] * Add Router Reachability Probing (RFC4191) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=270972554c91acd29412d8b6a10e606041012106 (commit)] * Add experimental support for Route Information Option in RA (RFC4191): [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc (commit)] * Add router_probe_interval sysctl [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=52e1635631b342803aecaf81a362c1464e3da2e5 (commit)] * Add accept_ra_pinfo sysctl. This controls whether we accept Prefix Information in RAs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c4fd30eb18666972230689eb30e8f90844bce635 (commit)] * Add accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=09c884d4c3b45cda904c2291d4723074ff523611 (commit)] * Add accept_ra_defrtr sysctl: This controls whether we accept default router information in RAs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=65f5c7c1143fb8eed5bc7e7d8c926346e00fe3c0 (commit)] * Add accept_ra_rtr_pref sysctl [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=930d6ff2e2a5f1538448d3b0b2652a8f0c0f6cba (commit)] * DCCP * Initial feature negotiation implementation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=afe00251dd9b53d51de91ff0099961f42bbf3754 (commit)] * Initial CCID2 (TCP-Like) implementation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2a91aa3967398fb94eccc8da67c82bce9f67afdf (commit)], and make it the default as per the draft [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93ce20928f6e197707add8f670ae0cd029107e8f (commit)] * Introduce sysctls for the default features, in /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/*: /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/ack_ratio, /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/rx_ccid, /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/send_ackvec, /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/send_ndp, /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/seq_window, /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/tx_ccid. Of course we also need the setsockopt for each app to tell its preferences, but for testing or defining something other than CCID2 as the default for apps that don't explicitely set their preference the sysctl interface is handy [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e55d912f5b75723159348a7fc7692f869a86636a (commit)] * Netfilter * Add H.323 conntrack/NAT helper [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5e35941d990123f155b02d5663e51a24f816b6f3 (commit)] * nf_conntrack, support for layer 3 protocol load on demand: x_tables matches and targets that require nf_conntrack_ipv[4|6] to work don't have enough information to load on demand these modules [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b9f78f9fca626875af8adc0f7366a38b8e625a0e (commit)] * Extend current iptables compatibility layer in order to get 32bit iptables to work on 64bit kernel. Current layer is insufficient due to alignment checks both in kernel and user space tools [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2722971cbe831117686039d5c334f2c0f560be13 (commit)] * Unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport match: This unifies ipt_multiport and ip6t_multiport to xt_multiport. As a result, this addes support for inversion and port range match to IPv6 packets [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a89ecb6a2ef732d04058d87801e2b6bd7e5c7089 (commit)] * Unify IPv4/IPv6 esp match: This unifies ipt_esp and ip6t_esp to xt_esp. Please note that now a user program needs to specify IPPROTO_ESP as protocol to use esp match with IPv6. This means that ip6tables requires '-p esp' like iptables [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dc5ab2faece3b7473931357db7f63f596678481d (commit)] * Add RFC2863 operstate. This adds a dormant flag to network devices, RFC2863 operstate derived from these flags and possibility for userspace interaction. It allows drivers to signal that a device is unusable for user traffic without disabling queueing (and therefore the possibility for protocol establishment traffic to flow) and a userspace supplicant (WPA, 802.1X) to mark a device unusable without changes to the driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b00055aacdb172c05067612278ba27265fcd05ce (commit)] * Allow 32 bit socket ioctl in 64 bit kernel [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=89bbfc95d65839d6ae23ddab8a3cc5af4ae88383 (commit)] * Socket timestamp 32 bit handler for 64 bit kernel [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f0ac2614412e2b597e2d5bfbd3960b4f73718b41 (commit)] * IPSEC: Sync series - SA expires. This allows a user to insert SA expires [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=53bc6b4d29c07664f3abe029b7e6878a1067899a (commit)] * IPSEC: Sync series - acquire insert: This introduces a feature similar to the one described in RFC 2367: "... the application needing an SA sends a PF_KEY SADB_ACQUIRE message down to the Key Engine, which then either returns an error or sends a similar SADB_ACQUIRE message up to one or more key management applications capable of creating such SAs". An app such as OSPF could then use ipsec KM to get keys [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=980ebd25794f0f87ac32844e2c73e9e81f0a72ba (commit)] * TCP: MTU probing: Implementation of packetization layer path mtu discovery for TCP, based on the internet-draft currently found at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pmtud-method-05.txt [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee (commit)] * TCP/UDP getpeersec: Enable a security-aware application to retrieve the security context of an IPSec security association a particular TCP or UDP socket is using [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c7946a7bf45ae86736ab3b43d0085e43947945c (commit)] * TCP: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=15d99e02babae8bc20b836917ace07d93e318149 (commit)] * Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6: Move the generic tunnel protocol stuff out of xfrm4_tunnel/xfrm6_tunnel and moves it into the new files of tunnel4.c and tunnel6 respectively [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d2acc3479cbccd5cfbca6c787be713ef1de12ec6 (commit)] * BRIDGE * Use LLC to send STP [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=12ac84c4a9c505e3e30529563b04cc8f6d5ebbf3 (commit)] * Use LLC for the receive path of Spanning Tree Protocol packets (STP) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cf0f02d04a830c8202e6a8f8bb37acc6c1629a91 (commit)] * Allow show/store of group multicast address [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fda93d92d7824159d8532995072dde2bee4bc4b3 (commit)] * X25 * Allow use of the optional user facility to insert ITU-T (http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/) specified DTE facilities in call set-up x25 packets [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a64b7b936dcd926ace745c07c14f45ecfaddb034 (commit)] * Allow dte facility patch to use 32 64 bit ioctl conversion mechanism [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9a6b9f2e763a1d1492e164f13c13b995a9b98d78 (commit)] * Allow 32 bit x25 module structures to be passed to a 64 bit kernel via ioctl using the new compat_sock_ioctl registration mechanism [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1b06e6ba25a37fe1c289049d0e0300d71ae39eff (commit)] * Wireless * WE-20, version 20 of the Wireless Extensions, it enables the full Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=711e2c33ac9221a419a9e28d05dd78a6a9c5fd4d (commit)] * Add the hardware independent software MAC layer [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=370121e5190a86a2d8a717ecd6f33028c7dc6fd4 (commit)] * softmac: reduce default rate to 11Mbps [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2638fed7ccb07ff43cdc109dd78e821efb629995 (commit)] * softmac: reduce scan dwell time: It currently takes something like 8 seconds to do a scan, because we spend half a second on each channel. Reduce that time to 20ms per channel [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=16f4352733d19c2d496f682c08cff368ba0495d0 (commit)] * Add LEAP authentication type [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=24056bec086aaa99923b21c0e1a0e993bb1c7e2a (commit)] * Add flags for all geo channels [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d128f6c176bff9c4929476e13132804321a6d5c5 (commit)] * Add spectrum management information [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7bd64366044565d6861783613db191c8aaec691e (commit)] * Add 802.11h information element parsing: Added default handlers for various 802.11h DFS and TPC [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d1b46b0fba8c1049135ee5d60910b04463dccc95 (commit)] and TIM [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=41a25c616b3140c388ff6009a1cb0b6b06a10f29 (commit)] * '''Drivers''' * PCI: Scheduled removal of the obsolete PCI_LEGACY_PROC (/proc/pci) interface [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5eeca8e688b6affba4cd85262152fdd1b274ad33 (commit)] * ipmi * Add full driver model support for the IPMI driver. It links in the proper bus and device support. It adds an "ipmi" driver interface that has each BMC discovered by the driver (as a device) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=50c812b2b9513e3df34eae8c30cb2c221b79b2cb (commit)] * Add generic PCI handling [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0defcdbd2b7da7694e2645da92716cea0a3c0ff (commit)] * AGP/DRM * ATI RS350 support: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9d1ef8a64e21e57109be45a7345b09cf913e4b0e (commit)] * Enable VIA AGP driver on x86-64 for VIA P4 chipsets, needed for some newer EM64T systems [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9d1f6b28ee2429a1f94a9f7074ffae7f918d33be (commit)] * Rework radeon memory map [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d5ea702f1e8e3edeea6b673a58281bf99f3dbec5 (commit)] * Add all the r300 and r400 PCI ids from DRM CVS [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f3dd5c37382472a8b245ad791ed768771594e60c (commit)] * libata * Turn on ATAPI by default [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=418dc1f5a805822fcf1118804ddc689a4156db4a (commit)] * Add per-device max_sectors [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b00eec1d58ee71131375bfeb86e64bceec3f5618 (commit)] * ahci: Now that libata is smart enought to handle both soft and hard resets, add softreset method [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4658f79bec0b51222e769e328c2923f39f3bda77 (commit)] * Add support for the Promise Fasttrak TX4300/TX4310 4-port PCI SATA controllers based on the PDC40719 chip to sata_promise driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e1fd263c772e89706dee28aa794399ac4bd6b9c1 (commit)] * Add a new PCI ID for SiI 3124 to sata_sil24 driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b9d7e04a8daaf3e5afe775ec9cbbfda5e32dd5b (commit)] * Add 6042 support to sata_mv driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e4e7b89280d1d666e2c09e5ad36cf071796c4c7e (commit)] * Make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev. Now that each ata_device has xfer masks, per-dev limits can be made per-dev instead of per-port [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a529139554f12cb265715117a2153c936286294 (commit)] * Simplex and other mode filtering logic. This provides the needed framework to support all the mode rules found in the PATA world [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5444a6f405618706eddbe1605ef8533b1b655764 (commit)] * Remove E.D.D [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aec5c3c1a929d7d79a420e943285cf3ba26a7c0d (commit)] * AHCI: add ATI SB600 PCI IDs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8b316a3973f05e572b4edeeda9072987f6bbaa44 (commit)] * SCSI * Allow displaying and setting of cache type via sysfs: This patch adds a scsi_disk class with the cache type and FUA parameters, so user land application can easily obtain them without having to parse dmesg. It also allows setting the cache type (use with care...) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6bdaa1f17dd32ec62345c7b57842f53e6278a2fa (commit)] * sas: add support for enclosure and bad ID rphy attributes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a012564136a665f8d63443c057ba368572b483df (commit)] * mptsas: add support for enclosure and bay identifier attributes: Adds support to retrieve the enclosure and bay identifiers. This patch is from Eric with minor modifications from me, rewritten from a buggy patch of mine, based on the earlier CSMI implementation from Eric.. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e3094447e013a59ccedcf60f6055f18225bd8465 (commit)] * qla2xxx: Add ISP54xx support, chip is similar in form to our ISP24xx offering [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=044cc6c8ec311c4ddeebfcc31c53dea282de70b7 (commit)] * Add big endian support to 3ware 9000 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=75913d9bb8328c4eca54cad39a5fb665b48383eb (commit)] * lpfc: Add support for FAN [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5024ab179c13d763f95c8391f45f22309609f479 (commit)] * lpfc: Add module parameter to limit number of outstanding commands per lpfc HBA [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b28485acb930f67c014024bc3b9c01129124e566 (commit)] * mptspi: Add transport class Domain Validation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c92f222e1f14588171e63b550ca8c85fa9130061 (commit)] * qla2xxx: Add VPD sysfs attribute [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6f6417905cf272337a9762e1f92a1fffa651fcd3 (commit)] * Input devices * Add support for Braille devices [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b9ec4e109d7a342e83e1210e05797222e36555c3 (commit)] * Add SNES mouse support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b157d55eef38f014015b8058a9f733d1c1c49cb4 (commit)] * USB devices * Add OHCI support for AU1200 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d5fb7f1b5b832946eaf450b2a695ec3e7fd2d351 (commit)] * Add EHCI support for AU1200 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=76fa9a240de4294a097235c9ddd470c21eb3449e (commit)] * Add support for OCHI on AT91rm9200 based boards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=39a269c09f854d3d98cbb755b3568175f04efa10 (commit)] * Add support for AT91 (rm9200, eventually also sam9261 or uClinux) platforms [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bae4bd848dc0b7e6defc7a5d62834a35d1eed06d (commit)] * Add a new device ID to the cp2101 driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=59224f5352542b968c41200954e56c26c4f0a075 (commit)] * Add Icom ID1 USB product and vendor ids to the ftdi_sio driver. The Icom ID-1 1.2 GHz band digital transceiver is a new radio that has a USB interface [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf58fbd5e86a43466e638407ff8a4eb7766a3b68 (commit)] * Add support for Creativelabs Silvercrest USB keyboard [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2e56222ed52cec40427fa89f23b228232e3e327e (commit)] * Add navman GPS device driver (USB serial) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e9a66c64bb7033cb0180d419b2008acf7a141adc (commit)] * Add support for the Nokia ca42 version 2 cable to the cypress_m8 driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a5c44e29e5637b5e6fe59d225eb4f438688b3849 (commit)] * Adds Linksys USBVPN1 support (http://www1.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?prid=3D543&scid=3D30) to the pegasus driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=efafe6fb72b2bbab40080a08f7946f1eadb9bad9 (commit)] * EHCI for Freescale 83xx. This driver supports both the Dual-Role (DR) controller and the Multi-Port-Host (MPH) controller present in the Freescale MPC8349 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=80cb9aee01245b38325dd84f1359b14a3f01f10d (commit)] * Add a Video4linux2 driver for ZC0301 Image Processor and Control Chip.[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=60f780528f3ae603eb169a221628b93b6c6929f9 (commit)] * Adds support for three USB peripheral controllers: "musbhsfc" for peripherals only, as found in for example the IBM/AMCC 44EP processors; "musbhdrc" is OTG-capable (dual role), and is found in various products including OMAP 2430 and the new DaVinci SOCs. The full speed controller on the FreeScale MPC8272 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1c05ad4447e4ecbd61647c102fb6f2f5a6634ff3 (commit)] * Network devices * Driver for the Broadcom 43xx based wireless cards (from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de). This chip is embedded in lots of laptops: Apple (Airport Extreme), Acer, Asus, Dell, Compaq and [http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/hardware many others] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f222313a61a5e134de80767b35c672b91e78383c (commit)] * ipw2100 * Add LEAP authentication algorithm support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cbbdd03fadeddd02efec05ccfd4e6870ed913762 (commit)] * Add generic geo information [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=be6b3b15b511aededd89d1ebbc7b25d0edd1ccd3 (commit)] * ipw2200: * switch to the new ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format. You will also need to upgrade your firmware image to the 3.0 version, available from http://ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9006ea75cfaded82acbc34d03e9d4e86447f40a9 (commit)] * Support WE-18 WPA, used to advertise the WPA-related encryption options that it does really support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f1b50863aa6a96c61a57e3b3a5e76e67b38c5c3e (commit)] * Add LEAP authentication algorithm support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3e234b4e5768b4f783fc45f20be8c6515b875f17 (commit)] * Bluetooth coexistence support. It adds a new module param "bt_coexist" which defaults to OFF [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=810dabd466fe70869b66ab64dd326b6153cef645 (commit)] * Add module parameter to enable/disable roaming [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4bfdb91dcff0dd4b70922de263ccffffb8fb1d16 (commit)] * Enable the "slow diversity" algorithm. This forces one antenna or the other, if the background noise is significantly quieter in one than the other [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=71de1f3dd14e3e39cef929506a9526779f5a447d (commit)] * Wireless extension sensitivity threshold support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=651be26f2daf31e61faf4b55ada709cf39ec76a2 (commit)] * TG3 * Add support for 5714S and 5715S [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d4d2c558fd3e1f5e386b153f194aa8f0be496c77 (commit)] * Add support for new chip 5755 which is very similar to 5787 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=af36e6b6d7f4ad7a5ccfd14dfa71ec941255f93d (commit)] * Add 5755 nvram support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d3c7b886978bef42f5ea487dec376c482d3cd7e3 (commit)] * Add basic support for 5787 and 5754 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d9ab5ad12b0d865bdb1b750d81192d34465541e9 (commit)] * Support additional nvrams and new nvram format for 5787 and 5754 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1b27777a9b9b2b6d1c06000b7a31262d198b4238 (commit)] * Support 5787 hardware TSO [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a6f3074c2ea5a7b4ff5b18f0e1fd9b1257e1a29 (commit)] and ipv6 checksum support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9c27dbdf64cba05d0cacc343118a7fd01d4b82f7 (commit)] * Support one-shot MSI on 5787. In this mode, MSI disables itself automatically after it is generated, saving the driver a register access to disable it for NAPI [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fcfa0a32c767219c1bdad621ef4a3aff1904cbbd (commit)] * Forcedeth * Let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=827700866ad0996e8c0f5ce75d1c01ae9b034cd6 (commit)] * Add support for vlan stripping/inserting in hardware [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ee407b02f3f1992bc746876c26f8175c8783562b (commit)] * Add highdma support for tx/rx rings [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0832b25a75d128e4f9724156380ba071c4f3f20d (commit)] * Add support for MSI/MSIX interrupts [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d33a73c81241e3d9ab8da2d0558429bdd5b4ef9a (commit)] * e1000 * Add support for ESB2 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6418ecc68e1d9416451b6f78ebb2c0b077e0abf2 (commit)] * Add TSO workaround for 82573 controller support: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f68788856b134f93d9d10b19aa902924c61fc02 (commit)] * Added a performance enhancement - prefetch [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=30320be88fb9cae888eacf1f1eaae95a03720128 (commit)] * sky2 * Add MSI support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fb2690a9bfa330aff3de29cbdde526591ac90dce (commit)] * Remove support for untested Yukon EC/rev 0, the Yukon EC/rev0 (A1) chipset requires a bunch of workarounds [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=290d4de5b71f60bb5853a7ef9f0e8c817cd26892 (commit)] * Airo * Cache wireless scans [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9e75af30d529d54fc650586776c100d0665c0c93 (commit)] * Adds IWENCODEEXT and IWAUTH support for WEP and unencrypted operation, but no WPA [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4be757dd4c00ddabff2d6faf639466bb5d76bc79 (commit)] * S2io * Large Receive Offload (LRO) feature(v2) for Neterion 10GbE Xframe PCI-X and PCI-E NICs. More details in the commit [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d3d0439f574a4857c97b3ad2e63b082b7382d7e (commit)] * BNX2: Add ETHTOOL_GREGS support (ethtool -d support) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=244ac4f446ac6a19caf5eb692c4844f29e6478bf (commit)] * natsemi * Converts the driver to use NAPI [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b27a16b7c4738ea16f6f0730caf382a3f57317bb (commit)] * Support oversized EEPROMs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8b4cf42cf57e44e3c4a585e0f0a71e3a7efbf29 (commit)] * Starfire: Implement suspend and resume methods. It allows to put a computer with a starfire dual board into S4 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d4fbeabbc9e68c80738fe59135d201c3ed5fe40f (commit)] * sb1250-mac: Add support for the 4th port and other new features of the BCM1480 SOC [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f90fdc3cce3d8c8ed09615dc68cb789655078803 (commit)] * pcnet_cs: Add new id (Logitec LPM-LN100TE):[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c96a34ec3bad5ba37ee4da4a188ad534b2fa4321 (commit)] * isdn4linux: Add drivers for the Siemens Gigaset 3070 family of ISDN DECT PABXes connected via USB, either directly or over a DECT link using a Gigaset M105 or compatible DECT data adapter. The devices are integrated as ISDN adapters within the isdn4linux framework, supporting incoming and outgoing voice and data connections, and also as tty devices providing access to device specific AT commands. Supported devices include models 3070, 3075, 4170, 4175, SX205, SX255, and SX353 from the Siemens Gigaset product family, as well as the technically identical models 45isdn and 721X from the Deutsche Telekom Sinus series. Supported DECT adapters are the Gigaset M105 data and the technically identical Gigaset USB Adapter DECT, Sinus 45 data 2, and Sinus 721 data (but not the Gigaset M34 and Sinus 702 data which advertise themselves as CDC-ACM devices). These drivers have been developed over the last four years within the project http://sourceforge.net/projects/gigaset307x . [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=drivers/isdn/gigaset Source code] * sis900 adm7001 PHY support: This is required to get a SIS964 based motherboard ethernet working (FSC D1875) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=494aced2cda34c186083f7d53c419426eea3d584 (commit)] * spidernet: enable tx checksum offloading by default [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8dfc914a3f2ae4e303e2bff89f28fc14cee8a9a6 (commit)] * bonding: support carrier state for master [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ff59c4563a8d1b39597aab4917959146c61f09b0 (commit)] * axnet_cs.c: Add hardware multicast support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b8ab2dc3e1a7c525ca73ba0af3518ec0b7654b3b (commit)] * ALSA * Driver for AdLib FM cards. An AdLib card is just an OPL2, the driver has been tested with an actual ancient 8-bit ISA AdLib cards and works fine, but given that AdLib cards don't have their own mixer, upping the volume from 0 might be a problem without the card driver already loaded and driving the OPL3 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cf40a310a7aaf1944eea3e01e9c120b31850c3b6 (commit)] * Make procfs & OSS plugin code optional (CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS, CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21a3479a0b606d36fe24093f70a1c27328cec286 (commit)] * Add Zoom Video support in the ES18xx driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=95b712965f0a50365cc0128dacc27acf562f2ff1 (commit)] * Add support for EDIROL UM-3ex [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e03173fce2f2c233b755f2d668d6d4247a717453 (commit)] * Add Leadtek Winfast tv 2000xp delux to whitelist in the bt848 driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=abf58f095525c0e46b4ee64a4f9c2084b4c08f4c (commit)] * Add support of Prodigy-7.1LT to the ice1724 driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=45fe722ba814dc50410729a473022c550dd96910 (commit)] * ac97: Added a codec patch for LM4550 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba22429d3ea3b9945735b88d4dde74711171ffab (commit)] * HDA/ALC260: add 'acer' models [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0bfc90e95946ac420e2de049707232ce18ddeba9 (commit)] * via82xx - Add dxs entry for FSC Amilo L7300 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bd84b0cc99d267d6512f01a55af7dbb673f784af (commit)] * Add default entry for CTL Travel Master U553W [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c1fc8047310c9d3147f9521af651a5823a72d218 (commit)] * emu10k1 - Add the entry for Audigy4 SB0400 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4fcf0117d599965a5916985c9923776628e16779 (commit)] * via82xx - Add dxs entry for ASRock mobo [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=42611c02ac31e44abd53893209460ce60205cb8e (commit)] * Add more PCI subsystem IDs of DVB cards to the blacklist of cards to the bt87x driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0110f50b6eb7a833f0e1e4e9a58d04a03d58939c (commit)] * Add snd-als300 driver for Avance Logic ALS300/ALS300+ soundcards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b3a70d5ece60684c00d7d94ccc42741efdf99336 (commit)] * Add dxs entry for EPoX EP-8KRAI in via82xx driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c04d092bde6a5dce632dec595f3974a35ed2cc2a (commit)] * Add a mixer control which allows the user to switch the Aux playback between the internal Aux jack, Wavetable, and Rear Line-In on Aureon Universe cards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=af9b70ac0044d126b28d28894cd890447c0a9dc1 (commit)] * Add snd-riptide driver for Conexant Riptide chip [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=109a9638f0fe38915838b7b9acd98e7cfa91797f (commit)] * Add snd-miro driver for miroSOUND PCM [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1841f613fd2e73f09d3fa2beeccf2f8d978ec2db (commit)] * Add support of LG LW20 laptop with ALC880 codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d681518a56d25d21d73a421174d189242adc68c7 (commit)] * hda-codec * Add PCM for 2nd ADC on ALC260 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4c5186ed6b25278df595edf2d355ee87b00c4426 (commit)] * Add missing model entries for Intel 945 boards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=353b9e667042d6faa15a41df022bf38c949a7b2f (commit)] * Added a new model 'laptop-eapd' to AD1986A codec for Samsung R65 and ASUS A6J laptops [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=825aa97241b46d2819c1db984c86a1a9df41b8e1 (commit)] * Add a model entry for Aopen i915GMm-HFS mobo with ALC880 codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ede3531e8ce2deb81e477e18d72ef10efeb20ebe (commit)] * Add support for VAIO FE550G and SZ110 laptops with Sigmatel codec (7661). The new model 'vaio' is added [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=db064e503419c32df463326a3891a973bb30582e (commit)] * Add model entry for FIC P4M-915GD1 with ALC880 codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a12606cff106335650f0e9382e87b0fb08733eff (commit)] * Added the support ASUS P4GPL-X with ALC880 codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=84f3430c7255668a0298d166605d27e3c96b5de4 (commit)] * Add HP model [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=18a815d7426986890b88078ea63b77732baca0b5 (commit)] * Add lg model for LG laptop (m1 express dual) with ALC880 codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ae6b813a4dbba2713df497c032798b845289653f (commit)] * Added the support for HP nx9420 (Angelfire) laptop with AD1981HD codec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b2c2844c5a486020e5d564870d114a7f4cd5ea4f (commit)] * Add support for high definition audio on ATI SB600 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=89be83f8eef781a801898c08a5317ed463fe872f (commit)] * usb-audio * Add a quirk entry for the Edirol PC-50 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=415b09e4559b0c95666af3cebe918386212aef98 (commit)] * Add Miditech Play'n Roll support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b2b8229dde970b95e407d90a140e8a8753e1f0f6 (commit)] * Add Roland G-70 support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cdca881d79dc4133b35db5c855b688ee9cba12a9 (commit)] * Add support for the Yamaha MDP-5 and EZ-J24 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ccb4a4387b3ed8c5a03862ef1e6f7be484ade25 (commit)] * Add a quirk for the Casio AP-80R [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0243ef71acc0b5bd734b511ae6d9b4b481c1dc5e (commit)] * Add mixer control names for the Audiotrak Maya44 USB [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c7a93b852bf9ffcf466b304fa3cfac8823f9b932 (commit)] * Add a quirk entry for the Casio PL-40R. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9808dc962f6780ce7eac47c82400fede7f4a08b3 (commit)] * V4L/DVB * Add new internal VIDIOC_INT commands for setting the tuner mode, for putting a chip into standby mode and to set/get the routing of inputs/outputs of audio or video of a chip. These new commands will replace older commands that are no longer up to the task [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=757d250518c4905c5d13c8974446e08a2e3cf244 (commit)] * Add IR support to KWorld DVB-T (cx22702-based) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=28ecc4490100488663f1a978846632800ab198d5 (commit)] * Add standard for South Korean NTSC-M using A2 audio, South Korea uses NTSC-M but with A2 audio instead of BTSC and several audio chips need this information in order to set the correct audio processing registers [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d97a11e091a0bf40f1cfb0bbf443ddd7b455b133 (commit)] * Hauppauge Grey Remote support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf47e4e43e4dcf88fef61b1b4139ce2da20e1f73 (commit)] * Added terratec hybrid xs and kworld 2800rf support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4d17d0834a2e6a5cba096ea09592a4a096183300 (commit)] * Support for Galaxis DVB-S rev1.3 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8bd6301c2a33271b629ac1ef2088e110624d5665 (commit)] * Hauppauge HVR 900 Composite support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a94e95b443811c127734ef10f3b7d2220532c1d2 (commit)] * Add support for the Avermedia 777 DVB-T card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a78d0bfabda67dd40a5a97ba4c24265e1820e7ea (commit)] * Added signal detection support to tvp5150 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=19d7509c0531b0e08f52ab93070569e0aba54cdf (commit)] * Add initial support for KWorld HardwareMpegTV XPert [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=44256de13ecc72291b616fda5f2c7ca8b110feec (commit)] * Added support for the Tevion DVB-T 220RF, an analog/digital hybrid card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3dfb729f4513184d06a0c618179489ac7bb277e0 (commit)] * Add filtered Composite2 input to Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input. This improves video quality for Composite signals on the S-Video connector of the card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb46e3c28ef8055e82dfbc64ba64dda123833036 (commit)] * Add support for ELSA EX-VISION 700TV, which is the ELSA Japan's flagship model of the software encoding TV capture card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d0456d1d67044ff2987190d0d8148a88f1a775af (commit)] * Add support for Terratec Prodigy XS [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=282b7cb3e03d9ada4067083e61919d74197a1e5a (commit)] * Add radio support for KWorld HardwareMpegTV XPert [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e2798212e3ce0057336bc0807beb3213de1dc5be (commit)] * Add support for the Lifeview FlyDVB-T LR301 card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3d8466ece44c70555a101da73845955c443f4d18 (commit)] * Add DVB-T support for the Lifeview DVB Trio PCI card: only DVB-T support, no DVB-S yet [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=420f32fe4e3eed466a6563e15a89f4688134cc98 (commit)] * Add support for xc3028 analogue tuner (Hauppauge HVR900, Terratec Hybrid XS) to v4l [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0004fd59d57a5875db8897966c414a88b5dad481 (commit)] * Add support for Kworld ATSC110 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3e1410adc7cc9e8511327179b5b86864be17b7f9 (commit)] * Add cpia2 camera support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ab33d5071de7a33616842882c11b5eb52a6c26a1 (commit)] * Add support for the FE6600 tuner used on the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Hybrid board, and add support for the Zarlink ZL10353 DVB-T demodulator, which supersedes the MT352, used on the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Hybrid and later model Plus boards [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=780dfef37e2c941985b708f67aa0074edc922bea (commit)] * Add support for Satelco Easywatch DVB-S light [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=36f4f334a169e5d42721d74b5d92fda89f792b06 (commit)] * Add support for remote control in Lifeview FlyDVB-T Duo [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8029170b907e7bfac5f6ea3fcd5d076e90beaf3 (commit)] * Add support for AVerMedia A169 Dual Analog tuner card (dual saa7134 decoders - only 1 working right now) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=68593af311aadb541b3b70acea175dea8e9cf7ca (commit)] * Added ID entries for the Genius VideoWonder DVB-T and the LifeView FlyTV Platinum Gold [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=42e6b3b476f89b08232d1c1efd2327665b9050c8 (commit)] * There seems to be a new version of the USB DVB-T stick from WideView with a new demod-revision inside and thus a new firwmare. This patch enables support for that [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d46e6451956df4bee829dfebd5b521d0ee4868d1 (commit)] * Added support for the new Lifeview hybrid cardbus modules [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d95b8942eed310759bc866a2a4c0f110578aaa69 (commit)] * Added keycodes for the DViCO FusionHDTV portable remote control in Cxusb driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c150178bff4ae76635ccb06abd5258933379ecc6 (commit)] * Remove VIDIOC_S_AUDIO from tvaudio: no longer used [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=11cda1075d8c40e536b77fce6dbf4cdbf8f77736 (commit)] * Add support for the Wolfson Microelectronics WM8739 stereo A/D converter from the ivtv driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=75c4570ca4849b089c4edfc14bf02b4720087aba (commit)] * Cx88 default picture controls values [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f9c907fdc331fc6062d758f46f65cb0d2dd11be (commit)] * Add PAL / SECAM support to LG TALN series [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f3629be8388a679590eb919919ee63e2715ec25e (commit)] * Add support for the uPD6408x NEC Electronics 3-Dimensional Y/C separation i2c device [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=add953cecba870f4ad7730bd0a6d5eaaabeac3bc (commit)] * Creates a virtual video device driver. The Virtual Video Device Driver (aka vivi) is a device that can be used to test core v4l functionalities or be a prototype for newer development. When loaded, it provides a video device that generates a standard color bar, with a timestamp placed at top left corner [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1e6dd65e17b8b584026334b16485365bab486422 (commit)] * Infiniband: * PathScale InfiniPath Verbs Driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cd5e25d93e6efeb93db7b6731b0a674495270621 (commit)] * Various updates [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=064c94f9da8845f12446ab37142aa10f3c6f66ac (commit)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ace48471736a4b00753c74633f430c4a3a7d89cb (commit)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=52aef8183fbedb0232b20127b089e85e7aa095e3 (commit)] * IRDA * TOIM3232 dongle support: Here goes a patch for supporting TOIM3232 based serial IrDA dongles [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ac81ae34ec8898e7eb1388fe21e3cee7b626a88 (commit)] * nsc-ircc: support for yet another Thinkpad IrDA chipset, a variation of the nsc-ircc PC8739x chipset, found in some IBM Thinkpad laptops [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ed79c9b7dea5cd9a55589a495cf96f00cd037d9 (commit)] * nsc-ircc: Enable PnP support for the nsc-ircc chipset [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ec4f32d550b94b4b66c9c7689bc09c6b32c8e82e (commit)] * Video: * vgacon: Add support for soft scrollback. The scrollback buffer of the VGA console is located in VGA RAM. This RAM is fixed in size and is very small. To make the scrollback buffer larger, it must be placed instead in System RAM. The feature and the size of the buffer are made as a kernel config option. Besides consuming kernel memory, this feature will slow down the console by approximately 20% [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=15bdab959c9bb909c0317480dd9b35748a8f7887 (commit)] * fbdev: Support the framebuffer driver for the display controller in AMD Geode GX processors (Geode GX533, Geode GX500 etc). Tested at 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 at 8, 16, and 24 bpp with both CRT and TFT. No accelerated features currently implemented and compression remains disabled. This driver requires that the BIOS (or the SoftVG/Firmbase code in the BIOS) has created an appropriate virtual PCI header [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fc4effc7a98d0d320e478d1d42bc4a8a64380150 (commit)] * nvidiafb: Add suspend and resume hooks to make software suspend more reliable [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7a07cd786dbd0111b9dd977e114438220cb4eee5 (commit)] * Add ID for Quadro NVS280: Quadro NVS280 is a dual-head PCIe card [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ed49843b897da9969e349c279ffc832efcb93213 (commit)] * fbdev: Make BIOS EDID reading configurable: DDC reading via the Video BIOS may take several tens of seconds with some combination of display cards and monitors [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=59153f7d7effdb5b3c81eb6d03914a866157b319 (commit)] * fbdev: add modeline for 1680x1050@60 for the Philips 200W display. aty128fb does not do DDC, it picks 1920x1440 or similar. It works ok with nvidiafb because it can ask for DDC data. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0c87978216836455ef5fbcac6df1ce6679750b0 (commit)] * au1200fb: Add support for Alchemy Au1200 framebuffer driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f95ec3c6df271ae4e6290cd6b95c18a009c76dc9 (commit)] * w100fb: Add acceleration support in w100fb.c (i.e. ATI Imageons) for the copyarea and fillrect operations [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9b0e1c5dd2941aec566047e10a5cc929ca7f7d4f (commit)] * Remove old radeon driver, which has been obsoleted by the new one since a few releases [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=39451a73a2d190763ba8a98f486cf23d63d22582 (commit)] * i2c * Add support for the CS5535/CS5536 in the scx200_acb driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=16ffc5c99554bc1630bc3939e0950a75b2b1c811 (commit)] * Add Broadcom HT-1000 south bridge's PCI ID to i2c-piix driver. Note that at least on Supermicro H8SSL it uses non-standard SMBHSTCFG = 3 and standard values like 0 or 9 causes hangup [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5f7ea3c58c9aa571617a9d77dd2fbd4bd81cc50a (commit)] * Add the DS2482 I2C-to-w1 bridge driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=baf12ae29ab4cc6381e21b2e1a3af75a6a8f7566 (commit)] * acpiphp * Add dock event handling: These patches add generic dock event handling to acpiphp. If there are pci devices that need to be inserted/removed after the dock event, the event notification will be handed down to the normal pci hotplug event handler in acpiphp so that new bridges/devices can be enumerated. Because some dock stations do not have pci bridges or pci devices that need to be inserted after a dock, acpiphp will remain loaded to handle dock events even if no hotpluggable pci slots are discovered. You probably need to have the pci=assign-busses kernel parameter enabled to use these patches, and you may not allow ibm_acpi to handle docking notifications and use this patch [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=20416ea54087c25502d6fb973b8e119973e16341 (commit)] * Add new bus to acpi: If we add a new bridge with subordinate busses, we should call make sure that acpi is notified so that the PRT (if present) can be read and drivers who have registered on this bus will be notified when it is started. Also make sure to use the max reserved bus number for the starting the bus scan [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=15a1ae74879925d0d3f71ebc3f56d0a2c5db393a (commit)] * hwmon * Add support for the Intel Pentium M series to the hwmon-vid driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4c537fb287e68b84df685f4730348e83a163367b (commit)] * Add support for the Winbond W83687THF chip to the w83627hf hardware monitoring driver. This new chip is almost similar to the already supported W83627THF chip, except for VID and a few other minor changes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c2db6ce14a743ac5f8973124272cf425c4f86b90 (commit)] * pcmcia * Add support for Possio GCC AKA PCMCIA Siemens MC45 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=30bac7aa0e3678c79ff00fc9372f34712eeb34fc (commit)] * AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver: This patch adds support for the Compact Flash controller integrated in he Atmel AT91RM9200 processor [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c1f3b7a30286c16ba151fadb0abf0b20e2a1e45 (commit)] * Serial: * Add rs422 support to the Altix ioc4 serial driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=64b91379439ff0fb007bde90eb496299c14a9b2a (commit)] * serial_cs: Add Merlin U630 IDs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1de9cedfbdff1d8adb662cd3afc5bda66e393351 (commit)] * Allow 8250 PCI, PNP, GSC and HP300 support to be disabled with EMBEDDED enabled [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0cff260a42c051ee64c184ed05d96d18d243f7f6 (commit)] * mmc * Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver: Driver for the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface specification [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d129bceb1d44ed3c23b99164849193703372bab4 (commit)] * Add OMAP MMC host driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=730c9b7e6630f786fcec026fb11d2e6f2c90fdcb (commit)] * udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options: As Pekka Enberg pointed out, with the if still following the else, you can still get a null uid written to the disk if you specify a default uid= without uid=forget. In other words, if the desktop user is uid=1000 and the mount option uid=1000 is given ( which is done on ubuntu automatically and probably other distributions that use hal ), then if any other user besides uid 1000 owns a file then a 0 will be written to the media as the owning uid instead [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0e6b3e5e97e2e8a25bcfc528dad94edf5220dfeb (commit)] * aoe: support dynamic resizing of AoE devices: Allow the driver to recognize AoE devices that have changed size. Devices not in use are updated automatically, and devices that are in use are updated at user request [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3ae1c24e395b2b65326439622223d88d92bfa03a (commit)] * dm/md: * Raid5 reshaping support [http://lwn.net/Articles/169140/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ccfcc3c10b2a5cb8fd3c918199a4ff904fc6fb3e (commit)] * Infrastructure to allow normal IO to continue while array is expanding: We need to allow that different stripes are of different effective sizes, and use the appropriate size. Also, when a stripe is being expanded, we must block any IO attempts until the stripe is stable again [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ecaa1e6a1ad69862e9980b6c777e11f26c4782d (commit)] * Following symlinks are created if dm-0 maps to sda: /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda, /sys/block/sda/holders/dm-0 --> /sys/block/dm-0 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f165921df46a977e3561f1bd9f13a348441486d1 (commit)] * Following symlinks are created if md0 is built from sda and sdb: /sys/block/md0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda, /sys/block/md0/slaves/sdb --> /sys/block/sdb, /sys/block/sda/holders/md0 --> /sys/block/md0, /sys/block/sdb/holders/md0 --> /sys/block/md0 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5463c7904c952aa6b6804dd902c72a5332fa5221 (commit)] * LED * Adds an LED driver for LEDs exported by the Sharp LOCOMO chip as found on some models of Sharp Zaurus [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4d3cb35476903768541f79e61f171e79e6065098 (commit)] * Add NAND MTD activity LED trigger [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8fe833c1b010489b71b082e553b1dfa80ef81061 (commit)] * Adds LED drivers for LEDs found on the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 (corgi, shepherd, husky) and cxx00 (akita, spitz, borzoi) models [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3179108daaaccbf28b17d6d8b0e06abf0eee6d9f (commit)] * Add an LED trigger for IDE disk activity to the ide-disk driver [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2bfb646cdf348cb77c572f06d5b9d17ea205c7e2 (commit)] * Add an LED trigger for the charger status as found on the Sharp Zaurus series of devices [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181bf8aa68a1d062d7f98abb0f1cb8871910320c (commit)] * Adds LED drivers for LEDs found on the Sharp Zaurus c6000 model (tosa) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6d0cf3e0480f6be9232854387794443d1a904d6d (commit)] * LED: class documentation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=75c1d31d9ea71025b73430c696b727e8aa15872d (commit)] * Add LED class [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c72a1d608dd0eb3d553a08bfdf1c0041bebaa8a0 (commit)] * add LED device support for ixp4xx devices [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6a0c51bfce5ae4058366017d861aea6564d25aee (commit)] * Add support for LED triggers to the LED subsystem. "Triggers" are events which change the state of an LED. Two kinds of trigger are available, simple ones which can be added to exising code with minimum disruption and complex ones for implementing new or more complex functionality [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c3bc9956ec52fb2c70f29aa894d8eec766116584 (commit)] * Add an example of a complex LED trigger in the form of a generic timer which triggers the LED its attached to at a user specified frequency and duty cycle [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6655c6fe575b720eb8cb6c143ae10995a7aa1916 (commit)] * Add driver support for general purpose I/O feature of the Synclink GT adapters [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0080b7aae88c75e2a6b38dfcb228b0f239e18e3c (commit)] * WATCHDOG at91_wdt.c Watchdog driver for the Atmel AT91RM9200 processor [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=853807fb500a9442d88646b7be92bfa51334f8e8 (commit)] [[Anchor(rules)]] Rules and tips: * Name of the new feature/description of the change, including a small explanation (if possible). Add links to web pages (if available), papers, etc. Keep the structure of previous changelogs! * If there's a interesting email (benchmarks, announcements if there's no web page, etc) about it in the mailing lists, get a link in one of the list's archives (at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel please, just for coherence. There're also fsdev & netdev mailing lists, etc) and add it. * Add commit's link to the git's web interface if possible, using the "(commit)" word. * To find commit's links you can search in the [http://www.kernel.org/git git web interface]. Remember that there're two main GIT trees where you can search for commits: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git the one which has all the stuff committed after 2.6.12-rc2] (ie: current development) and [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git the one which has all the stuff BEFORE 2.6.12-rc2] * However, if you want to keep track in "realtime", do NOT use the git's web interface (or the RSS). The RSS gets overflowed when there's a big merge. And more importantly, the shortlog you find in git's web interface does NOT care when things were really "committed": If a developer writes a patch, merges it in his git repository and then Linus pulls and merges it a month after it was merged in the developer's repository , the commit data won't appear in the "todays shortlog", but in the one-month-old changes (this could be fixed in the future however). * IOW: To keep track of the linux merges in realtime, the best option is to [http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#git-commits-head subscribe to the git-commits-head] mailing list (or search in the archives). Commit IDs are in the X-Git-Commit mail header. Tell your mailer to show them (by default it will be hidden unless you activate the "see the whole mail" option), if your mailer is good enought you'll be able to add a script which gets the Commit ID out of the header and launch a browser with the "http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=" needed gitweb URL before it. * It may look too hard to review the thousands of emails you get from the git-commit-head list, get the commit ID, the URL, a description and format all of it to put it here: "Formatting" is what would take most of your time. But the fact is that you can avoid most of the hard job by using some tricks. First of all, most of the relevant commits will be merged (and sent to the git-commits-head list) in the first two weeks after a kernel is released. When the mailing list sends you the commit messages, use the "mark" feature of your mailer to mark important commits - this is a easy operation, since the subject tells you if the commit is important, you can review quite a lot of commit messages per minute. When you're done, create an action/filter/whatever which allows you to extract the commit id. My MUA (sylpheed) allows me to create an "action" which allows me to pass the selected message(s) to a command. This allows to me to order my messages by marked/umarked to make easier to select at the same time all the marked messages, the I tell sylpheed to execute the previous "action", which runs a scripts which "greps" the commit-id out of the email headers and appends it to a file. This way I get a file with a list of all the relevant commit IDs (Other MUAS could have another methods to achieve this same goal or not have any at all). Now, with a local linux git repository (updated to head) and with a bit of scripting you can get (with git) the changelog information of every commit ID, so you can parse that information and generate a wiki-compatible-syntax list of commits with descriptions, URLs to gitweb automatically generated, etc. You'll need to fix the descriptions, but you get a LOT of work done automatically. * The web interface will show "meta-commits". When Linus merges things from a remote repository, You'll see a "Merge git://git.domain.com/foo/bar" style of message commit. If you click it for details you'll see a huge merge, but then the git shortlog will also show the individual commits. So those "meta-commits" are useful to add links to big merges which do one thing but do not mean anything by themselves. Those "meta-commits" will not be mailed to the git-commits-head mailing list. Random related stuff: * [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc5/2.6.14-rc5-mm1/broken-out/post-halloween-doc.patch davej's post halloween document], [http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html Kernelnewbies status] * Todo: Find links to corresponding changesets for the untracked 2.5 releases (if you're really bored) |
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Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in www.lkml.org or lore.kernel.org/lkml). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel for that. List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules!
You can discuss the latest Linux kernel changes on the New Linux Kernel Features Forum.
Linux 6.5 was released on Sunday, August 27 2023.
Summary: This release includes initial USB4 v2 support; support for moving a mount beneath the top mount; a new cachestat(2) system call to get the cache state of files; support for unaccepted memory in virtualized guests; initial support for Scope-based Resource Management and other compiler improvements; memfd_secret(2) has been enabled by default; and support for MIDI 2.0. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes.
Contents
- Prominent features
- Core (various)
- File systems
- Memory management
- Block layer
- Tracing, perf and BPF
- Virtualization
- Cryptography
- Security
- Networking
- Architectures
-
Drivers
- Graphics
- Power Management
- Storage
- Drivers in the Staging area
- Networking
- Audio
- Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
- TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
- Universal Serial Bus
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- Watchdog
- CPU Frequency scaling
- Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
- Real Time Clock (RTC)
- Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
- Multi Media Card (MMC)
- Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
- Industrial I/O (iio)
- Multi Function Devices (MFD)
- Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
- Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
- Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
- General Purpose I/O (gpio)
- Leds
- DMA engines
- Cryptography hardware acceleration
- PCI
- Clock
- PHY ("physical layer" framework)
- EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)
- Various
- Pull requests
1. Prominent features
1.1. Allow to move mounts beneath top mount
Some modern Linux distributions distribute packages in a way that there is a base distro layer with the usual Linux directories such as /etc or /usr, then users can install packages that provide a "layer" that incorporates content to these directories.
Updating one of those packages require incorporating a new mount to user processes, and removing the old. This can be done but it's currently too complex and has some limitations. This release exposes the ability to add a mount beneath the topmost mount of a mount stack through the new MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH flag for the move_mount(2) system call, then the old mount can be unmounted, and users get either the old or the new mount, but never the ones below. This allows userspace to seamlessly upgrade mounts.
For more details, see this LWN article, or this one
Also, see the merge commit explanation this commit or
1.2. New cachestat(2) system call to get the cache state of files
The only way to query the page cache state of large file sets and directory trees is currently mincore(2), but it scales poorly. Yet, this information could come in handy: A database could decide whether to perform an index scan or direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the index. Performance issues of the writeback algorithms and tuning could be diagnosed. IO fulfilled by page cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file could be estimated, allowing for more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and batching when there is not
This release includes a cachestat system call that queries cache state of a file and summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc. in a given range.
Recommended LWN article: Checking page-cache status with cachestat()
1.3. Support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform. This release adds support for it.
Recommended LWN article: Seeking an acceptable unaccepted memory policy
1.4. Initial support for Scope-based Resource Management and other compiler improvements
This release adds the infrastructure necessary to incorporate some compiler extensions that help to automatically run functions on a variable when its type goes out of scope, which can help to reduce bugs.
There is also initial support for the __counted_by macro, which will allow to provide runtime memory bound checking on flexible arrays, and -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is enabled by default, which instructs the compiler to treat only C99 flexible arrays as dynamically sized for the purposes of object size calculation.
Recommended LWN article: Scope-based resource management for the kernel
1.5. Enable secret memory by default
Secret memory and its memfd_secret(2) system call was incorporated in Linux 5.14. It allows to created a special memfd file descriptor whose contents will only be readable by its creator and not any other process, not even root processes or the kernel itself. It can be used to store private keys more securely, for example.
Due to concerns about the way it deals with memory management it was disabled by default, and enabled with a parameter. These concerns are not important anymore and the feature can be enabled by default.
1.6. Initial USB4 v2 support
This release adds initial support for the next USB4 version (USB4 v2) and the Intel Barlow Ridge discrete controller. It includes support for the 80G symmetric link, the necessary configuration needed to bring up the router in v2 mode, adaptive TMU, PCIe extended encapsulation, and CL2 low power link state. Other releases will include the rest of the USB4 v2 support, including asymmetric 128/80G link support.
1.7. MIDI 2.0 support
This release adds support for the 2.0 version of the popular MIDI format. MIDI 2.0 is a complete overhaul of the 40-years old MIDI 1.0. Unlike MIDI 1.0 byte stream, MIDI 2.0 uses packets in 32bit words for Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) protocol It supports both MIDI 1.0 commands for compatibility and the extended MIDI 2.0 commands for higher resolutions and more functions
2. Core (various)
(FEATURED) Allow to mount beneath top mount commit, commit, commit, commit
Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro. In an effort to annotate all flexible array members with their run-time size information, the "element_count" attribute is being introduced by Clang and GCC in future releases. This annotation will provide the ability to perform run-time bounds checking on otherwise unknown-size flexible arrays commit
Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double() commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- eventfd
fs.h: Optimize file struct to prevent false sharing commit
fuse: add feature flag for expire-only commit
- io_uring
modules: catch concurrent module loads, treat them as idempotent commit
string: use __builtin_memcpy() in strlcpy/strlcat commit
workqueue: Implement automatic CPU intensive detection and add monitoring commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
tools/nolibc: avoid coredumps and speed up tests commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
task scheduler: Consider CPU contention in frequency, EAS max util & load-balance busiest CPU selection commit, commit
- rust
- rtla
locking/atomic: restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3. This feature instructs the compiler to treat only C99 flexible arrays as dynamically sized for the purposes of object size calculations commit
(FEATURED) Scope-based Resource Management (Recommended LWN article) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Prepare for supporting more filesystems with fanotify commit, commit, commit, commit
fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cgroup/misc: Expose misc.current on cgroup v2 root commit
Binder: Add timestamp and async from to transaction record commit, commit
tty: update timestamps on all device nodes commit
3. File systems
- BTRFS
Submit IO synchronously for fast checksum implementations (crc32c and xxhash) commit, commit, commit
Speedup in fsync(), better tracking of inode logged status can avoid transaction commit commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Use per-buffer locking for extent_buffer reading commit, commit
Don't commit transaction for every subvol create commit
raid56: always verify the P/Q contents for scrub commit
Simplify extent_buffer reading and writing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Some delayed refs optimizations and cleanups commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Don't split ordered_extents for zoned writes at I/O submission time commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- EXT4
Journal cycled record transactions between each mount commit, commit, commit
Allow concurrent unaligned dio overwrites commit
Multiblock allocator improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Misc left over folio changes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- F2FS
- CACHEFILES
Allow the cache to be non-root commit
- EFIVARFS
Expose used and total size commit
- EXT2
- GFS2
- NFS
- NTFS3
Add support /proc/fs/ntfs3/<dev>/volinfo and /proc/fs/ntfs3/<dev>/label commit
- OVERLAYFS
- SQUASHFS
Cache partial compressed blocks commit
4. Memory management
(FEATURED) cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files commit, commit, commit
secretmem: make it on by default commit
Add the ability to handle page faults on parts of files which are already in the page cache without taking the mmap lock commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail. This is for some mmap_lock avoidance i.e. latency reduction. Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs; but likely to be relied upon later in other contexts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation commit
(FEATURED) Implement support for unaccepted memory. UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
convert migrate_pages() to work on folios commit
shmem: Implement splice-read commit
kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write commit
memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock debugfs commit
migrate_pages: Avoid blocking for IO in MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT commit
gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default commit, commit, commit
Convert several functions in hugetlb.c to use a folio commit, commit, commit
memcontrol: export memcg.swap watermark via sysfs for v2 memcg commit
slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR commit
slab: Deprecate the traditional SLAB allocator. Recommended LWN article. commit
- zswap
splice: Kill ITER_PIPE to avoid a race between truncate, iov_iter_revert() on the pipe and an as-yet incomplete DMA to a bio with unpinned/unref'ed pages from an O_DIRECT splice read commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
slab: introduce kmem_cache flag SLAB_NO_MERGE. It allos API users of kmem_cache_create to specify that they don't want any slab merge or aliasing (with similar sized objects) commit
cgroup: eliminate atomic rstat flushing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
5. Block layer
blk-ioprio: Introduce promote-to-rt policy commit
blk-wbt: adding a new attr_group for blk_mq, and sysfs entries will only be created when the device is rq based commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
block: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for Persistent Reservation ioctl commit, commit
ublk: cleanup and support user copy commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ublk: add control command of UBLK_U_CMD_GET_FEATURES commit
block: Use page pinning commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
md/raid10: prioritize adding disk to 'removed' mirror commit
md/raid1: prioritize adding disk to 'removed' mirror commit
md/raid0: add discard support for the 'original' layout commit
Use block pr_ops in LIO commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dm flakey: introduce random_read_corrupt and random_write_corrupt options commit
dm: support turning off block-core's io stats accounting commit
Fit the internal kernel API to communicate block device events to report block device events properly to file systems commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
6. Tracing, perf and BPF
BPF: Add socket destroy capability commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Add precision propagation for subprogs and callbacks commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
bpftool: Support bpffs mountpoint as pin path for prog loadall commit
BPF: Add LRU internals description and graph commit
bpftool: specify XDP Hints ifname when loading program commit
BPF: Show target_{obj,btf}_id for tracing link commit, commit, commit
Add O_PATH-based BPF_OBJ_PIN and BPF_OBJ_GET support commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: utilize table ID in bpf_fib_lookup helper commit, commit
function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function commit, commit, commit, commit
tracing: Add the file /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions_addrs that works just the same as available_filter_functions but also shows the addresses of the functions like kallsyms, except that it gives the address of where the fentry/mcount jump/nop is. This is used by BPF to make it easier to attach BPF programs to ftrace hooks commit
osnoise: Add the file /sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/per_cpu/cpu<cpu>/timerlat_fd that when a application opens it, it becomes the task that the timer
tracing: Add fprobe/tracepoint events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
New metricgroup output in perf stat default mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf: CXL 3.0 Performance Monitoring Unit support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf lock contention: Add CSV style output support commit, commit, commit, commit
perf script: Have consistent output for symbol address commit, commit, commit
perf pmus: Add placeholder core PMU commit
PMU refactoring and improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf annotate browser: Add '<' and '>' keys for navigation commit
perf stat: Add "--per-cache" aggregation option and document it commit
Add "(fault)" name injection to kernel probes commit
7. Virtualization
xen: speed up grant-table reclaim commit
xen/evtchn: Introduce new IOCTL to bind static evtchn commit
vhost: multiple worker support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
8. Cryptography
9. Security
- fsverity
selinux: deprecated fs ocon commit
10. Networking
ipconfig: Allow DNS to be overwritten by DHCPACK commit
Add SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD. SCM_PIDFD is a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS, but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not to care about PID reuse problem. SO_PEERPIDFD allows to get pidfd of peer socket holder pidfd, analogous of SO_PEERCRED which allows to get plain PID commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
IEEE 802.15.4 scan support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable socket busy polling on -RT commit
- TCP
- wifi
pppoe: make number of hash bits configurable commit
Support extack Support more VFs in RTM_GETLINK in dump and simplify ethtool uAPI commit, commit
ynl: generate code for the ethtool family commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support more VFs in RTM_GETLINK commit
- netfilter
nft_exthdr: add boolean DCCP option matching commit
Add a GC transaction API to replace the former attempt to deal with races between control plane and GC commit
Adapt ntables set backend to use GC transaction API commit
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Netfilter updates for net-next commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mptcp: refactor first subflow init commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mptcp: add some more diag info commit, commit, commit, commit
ieee802154: Active scan support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- splice work
Replace sendpage with sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Rewrite splice-to-socket, fix SPLICE_F_MORE and handle MSG_SPLICE_PAGES in AF_TLS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Switch over users of sendpage() and remove it commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support abstract unix socket addresses with the rpcbind daemon commit, commit
- packet scheduler
Add layer 2 miss indication and filtering. It adds a single bit to the tc skb extension to indicate that a packet encountered a layer 2 miss in the bridge and extends flower to match on this metadata. This is required for non-DF (Designated Forwarder) filtering in EVPN multi-homing which prevents decapsulated BUM packets from being forwarded multiple times to the same multi-homed host commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
openvswitch: add support for l4 symmetric hashing commit
xsk: Honor SO_BINDTODEVICE on bind commit
vxlan: Add nolocalbypass option to vxlan commit
11. Architectures
11.1. ARM
New SoCs
Samsung Exynos 4212 makes its return after the Samsung Galaxy Express phone is addded at last. The SoC support was originally added in 2012 but removed again in 2017 as it was unused at the time. Also add Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 boards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Amlogic C3 is a Cortex-A35 based smart IP camera chip commit
Qualcomm MSM8939 (Snapdragon 615), a more featureful variant of the still common MSM8916 (Snapdragon 410), plus support for two devices commit, commit, commit, commit
Qualcomm SC8180x (Snapdragon 8cx), one of their earlier high-end laptop chips, used in the Lenovo Flex 5G, which is added along with the reference board commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Qualcomm SDX75, the latest generation modem chip that is used as a peripherial in phones but can also run a standalone Linux. Unlike the prior 32-bit SDX65 and SDX55, this now has a 64-bit Cortex-A55 commit, commit, commit
- New boards (32 bit)
Marantec Maveo board based on dhcor imx6ull module commit
Endian 4i Edge 200, based on the armv5 Marvell Kirkwood chip commit
Epson Moverio BT-200 AR glasses based on TI OMAP4 commit
PHYTEC STM32MP1-3 Dev board based on STM32MP15 PHYTEC SOM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- New boards (64 bits)
Three boards based on NXP i.MX8: Emtop SoM & Baseboard commit, commit, commit, NXP i.MX8MM EVKB board commit, commit and i.MX8MP based Gateworks Venice gw7905-2x device commit
NVIDIA IGX Orin commit, commit and Jetson Orin Nano boards commit, commit, both based on tegra234
Qualcomm gains support for reference boards on various members of their IPQ networking SoC series commit, as well as the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua phone, the Acer Aspire 1 laptop commit, commit, commit, and the Fxtec Pro1X board commit on top of the various reference platforms for their new chips
Rockchips support for several newer boards: Indiedroid Nova (rk3588) commit, commit, commit, Edgeble Neural Compute Module 6B (rk3588) commit, commit, FriendlyARM NanoPi R2C Plus (rk3328) commit, Anbernic RG353PS (rk3566) commit, Lunzn Fastrhino R66S/R68S (rk3568) commit, commit, commit
TI K3/AM625 based PHYTEC phyBOARD-Lyra-AM625 board commit, commit and Toradex Verdin family with AM62 COM, carrier and dev boards commit, commit, commit, commit
Introduce Nuvoton ma35d1 SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Implement Eager Page Splitting for ARM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support for Armv8.8 memcpy instructions in userspace commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Permission Indirection Extension support. Not used in this release, enables future features commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add STM32MP25 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add STM32MP25 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add SoC ID for IPQ5312 and IPQ5302 commit
Add ftrace direct call for arm64 commit, commit, commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP418 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP442 of IPQ5332 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP453 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP454 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP474 of IPQ5332 family commit, commit, commit
Add support to configure Coresight Dummy subunit commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: Allow using VHE in the nVHE hypervisor commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: FF-A proxy for pKVM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: Work around Ampere1 erratum AC03_CPU_38 commit, commit, commit
MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 - MT6331/6332 PMIC Wrapper commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Robustify boot sequence and add support for WXN commit, commit
Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 Support commit, commit, commit
Support hld delayed init based on Pseudo-NMI for commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable the use of Branch Target Identification (FEAT_BTI) in the hypervisor commit
perf vendor events arm64: Add AmpereOne core PMU events commit
perf vendor events arm64: Add default tags for Hisi hip08 L1 metrics commit
11.2. X86
Add mitigation for GDS. Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in vector registers commit, commit, commit, commit
Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation. This is a speculative return address stack overflow vulnerability found on AMD processors commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable STIBP on AMD if Automatic IBRS is enabled commit
Parallel CPU bringup. The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the downtime of the VM tenants commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
pds_vdpa: Add new vDPA driver for AMD/Pensando DSC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: x86/mmu: Add "never" option to allow sticky disabling of nx_huge_pages commit
KVM: Provide SEV-SNP support for unaccepted memory commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
iommu/amd: AVIC Interrupt Remapping Improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: Add AMD Guest PerfMonV2 PMU support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
resctrl: Implement rename to help move containers' tasks commit, commit, commit
Support sub-NUMA clustering on UV commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- platform
lenovo-yogabook: Modify to also work on Android version commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
lenovo-ymc: Add Lenovo Yoga 7 14ACN6 to ec_trigger_quirk_dmi_table commit
int3472: discrete: Various improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
intel/pmc: Remove Meteor Lake S platform support commit
amd/pmf: Add new ACPI ID AMDI0103 commit
amd/pmf: Add PMF acpi debug support commit
amd/pmf: Add PMF debug facilities commit
amd: pmc: Add new ACPI ID AMDI000A commit
hp-wmi: Add HP Envy special key support commit
hp-wmi: Add HP WMI camera switch commit
int3472: discrete: Add alternative "AVDD" regulator supply name commit
think-lmi: Enable opcode support on BIOS settings commit
hp-wmi: Add thermal profile for Victus 16-d1xxx commit
ideapad-laptop: Add support for new hotkeys found on ThinkBook 14s Yoga ITL commit
Improve performance of csum_partial commit
x86/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL commit
Add hardcoded hypervisor interrupts to /proc/stat commit
Avoid relocation information in final vmlinux commit
AMD64 EDAC GPU Updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Fully relocatable alternatives and some NOPs commit, commit, commit, commit
powercap/intel_rapl: Introduce RAPL TPMI support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add multiple PMCs support in pmc core driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Fix perf on Intel hybrid CPUs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add metric has_event, update intel vendor events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Event, metric and metric group improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.3. RISCV
Add independent irq/softirq stacks support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add basic ACPI support for RISC-V commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Export Zba, Zbb to usermode via hwprobe commit, commit, commit, commit
Add vector ISA support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V board support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Export va_kernel_pa_offset in vmcoreinfo commit
ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL commit
KVM: Allow Svnapot extension for Guest/VM commit
KVM in-kernel AIA irqchip commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM virtualize AIA CSRs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.4. LOONGARCH
Support dbar with different hints commit
Replace kretprobe with rethook commit
Move Loongson1 PWM timer to clocksource framework commit, commit, commit
Add jump-label implementation commit
Add SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) support commit
Introduce hardware page table walker commit
Modify code about clone timens commit
Add vector extensions support commit
Add uprobes support for LoongArch commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support kmemleak commit
11.5. POWERPC
Make ELFv2 ABI the default for 64-bit big-endian kernel builds commit, commit, commit, commit
Add initial Dynamic Execution Control Register (DEXCR) support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
powernv/pci: Remove ioda1 support commit
Drop MPC8540_ADS and MPC8560_ADS platform support commit
Drop MPC85xx_CDS platform support commit
11.6. S390
pkey: add support for ecc clear key commit
uvdevice: Expose secret UVCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 commit
11.7. MIPS
uaccess: emulate Ingenic LXW/LXH/LXHU uaccess commit
ralink: Add support for TP-Link HC220 G5 v1 board commit, commit
11.8. PARISC
Add cacheflush() syscall commit
12. Drivers
12.1. Graphics
sysfs: Expose DRM connector id in each connector sysfs commit
sysfs: Link DRM connectors to corresponding Type-C connectors commit
atomic: Allow vblank-enabled + self-refresh "disable" commit
ttm: add NUMA node id to the pool commit
- amdgpu
Enable Colorspace connector property commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable Freesync Video Mode by default" commit
Add p-state debugging commit
Adding support for VESA SCR commit
Enable FPO + Vactive commit
Enable SubVP for high refresh rate displays commit
Add debugfs for allow_edp_hotplug_detection commit
Add option to use custom backlight caps commit
Add pixel rate based CRB allocation support commit
Enable FW assisted shadowing for GFX11 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable more Pstates profile levels for yellow_carp commit
amdkfd: Add spatial partitioning support in KFD commit
amdkfd: Add device repartition support commit
Introduce AMD GPU ISA Debugging for HSA Compute commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Panel
- vkms
shmobile: Fixes and enhancements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
lcdif: Add i.MX93 LCDIF support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
bridge: samsung-dsim: Support variable clocking commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vc4: hdmi: Broadcast RGB, BT601, BT2020 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Intel
fdinfo memory stats commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add i915 parameter to I915_STATE_WARN() commit
debugfs: New debugfs for display clock frequencies commit
Add MTL PMU support for multi-gt commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for MTL GSC SW Proxy commit, commit, commit, commit
mtl: Add C10 and C20 phy support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support Async Flip on Linear buffers commit
Allow user to set cache at BO creation commit
pxp: Add MTL PXP Support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Check HPD during eDP probe commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- msm
SM63(50|75) DPU support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Display support for MSM8226 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add DSC 1.2 dpu supports commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
adreno: GMU-less A6xx support (A610, A619_holi) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
meson: add support for MIPI DSI Display commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.2. Power Management
12.3. Storage
scsi: Add Command Duration Limits support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ufs: Do not requeue while ungating the clock commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE for NVME passthrough commit, commit
Allow to use the block pr_ops with LIO's target_core_iblock module to support cluster applications in VMs. Currently, to use windows clustering or linux clustering (pacemaker + cluster labs scsi fence agents) in VMs with LIO and vhost-scsi, you have to use tcmu or pscsi or use a cluster aware FS/framework for the LIO prfile. This release allows iblock to work like pscsi/tcmu where they can pass a PR command to the backend module commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ufs: ufs-pci: Add support for Intel Arrow Lake commit
ufs: wb: Add explicit flush_threshold sysfs attribute commit
lpfc: Enhance congestion statistics collection commit
qla2xxx: Multi-que support for TMF commit
smartpqi: Add new controller PCI IDs commit
smartpqi: Add support for RAID NCQ priority commit
smartpqi: Add sysfs entry for NUMA node in /sys/block/sdX/device commit
ufs: core: mcq: Add ufshcd_abort() and error handler support in MCQ mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.4. Drivers in the Staging area
Add Tegra20 parallel video input capture commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
media: staging: max96712: Add support for 3-lane C-PHY commit
media: atomisp: Remove a bunch of sensor related custom IOCTLs commit
media: atomisp: ov2680: Implement selection support commit
media: atomisp: Add support for sensors which implement selection API / cropping commit
media: atomisp: Add support for v4l2-async sensor registration commit, commit, commit
media: atomisp: Add enum_framesizes function for sensors with selection / crop support commit, commit
12.5. Networking
Add a regmap-based mdio driver and drop TSE PCS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add and use helper for PCS negotiation modes commit, commit, commit, commit
Bluetooth: btusb: Add MT7922 bluetooth ID for the Asus Ally commit
Bluetooth: btusb: Add device 6655:8771 to device tables commit
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2023-06-22 (ice) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
RDMA/bnxt_re: Enable low latency push commit
RDMA/bnxt_re: driver update for supporting low latency push commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
RVU NIX AF driver updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support for Wake-on-LAN for Broadcom PHYs commit, commit, commit
TXGBE PHYLINK support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
USB: zaurus: Add ID for A-300/B-500/C-700 commit
Wangxun netdev features support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
amd-xgbe: extend 10Mbps support to MAC version 21H commit
bcmgeAdd support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN commit
can: kvaser_pciefd: Fixes and improvments commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
can: kvaser_usb: Add len8_dlc support commit
can: usb: f81604: add Fintek F81604 support commit
chelsio: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES commit
dsa: marvell: Add support for mv88e6071 and 6020 switches commit, commit, commit
dsa: mv88e6xxx: implement USXGMII mode for mv88e6393x commit
dsa: qca8k: add support for additional modes for netdev trigger commit
ena: Add dynamic recycling mechanism for rx buffers commit
fec: turn on XDP features commit
gve: Support IPv6 Big TCP on DQ commit
ice: allow matching on meta data commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
igc: XDP kfunc metadata commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ionic: add support for ethtool extended stat link_down_count commit
lan966x: Add support for PCP, DEI, DSCP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mana: Add support for vlan tagging commit
mdio: add clause 73 to ethtool conversion helper commit
mlx5 updates: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5: Add management of EC VF vports commit
mlx5: Bridge, expose FDB state via debugfs commit
mlx5: Expose bits for local loopback counter commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5: Update SRIOV enable/disable to handle EC/VFs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5e: E-Switch: move debug print of adding mac to correct place commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlxbf-bootctl: Add sysfs file for BlueField boot log commit
mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Add ability to match on layer 2 miss commit
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add 88E6361 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
nfp: add L4 RSS hashing on UDP traffic commit
nfp: improve link modes reading process commit
ngbe: Add netdev features support commit
ngbe: Implement vlan add and remove ops commit
octeontx2-pf: Add support for page pool commit
octeontx2-pf: HTB offload support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
octeontx2-pf: TC flower offload support for rxqueue mapping commit
octeontx2-pf: mcs: Support VLAN in clear text commit
pcs: Add 10GBASE-R mode for Synopsys Designware XPCS commit
pcs: Drop the TSE PCS driver commit
pcs: xpcs: cleanups for clause 73 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
phy: add driver for MediaTek SoC built-in GE PHYs commit
phy: broadcom: Add LPI counter commit
phy: dp83869: support mii mode when rgmii strap cfg is used commit
phy: microchip_t1s: add support for Microchip LAN865x Rev.B0 PHYs commit
renesas: rswitch: Use hardware pause features commit
sa8775p-ride: enable the first ethernet port commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
sfc: Add devlink dev info support for EF10 commit
sfc: TC encap actions offload commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
sfc: more flexible encap matches on TC decap rules commit, commit, commit, commit
sfp: add support for HXSX-ATRI-1 copper SFP+ module commit
sfp: add support for a couple of copper multi-rate modules commit
sfp: add support for control of rate selection commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
stmmac: dwmac-sogfpga: use the lynx pcs driver commit
stmmac: xgmac: add ethtool per-queue irq statistic support commit
tools: ynl: generate code for the ethtool family commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
usb: qmi_wwan: add Quectel EM05GV2 commit
usb: qmi_wwan: add u-blox 0x1312 composition commit
usbnet: ipheth: add CDC NCM support commit
v3: ath11k: MBSSID and EMA support in AP mode. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: ath11k: Add HTT stats for PHY reset case commit
wifi: ath11k: add support default regdb while searching board-2.bin for WCN6855 commit
wifi: ath11k: factory test mode support commit
wifi: ath12k: Add support to parse new WMI event for 6 GHz regulatory commit
wifi: iwlwifi: Separate reading and parsing of reduce power table commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: Add new ODM vendor to ppag approved list commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: limit EHT capabilities based on PCIe link speed commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: also drop jacket from info macro commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add AP mode support for 8188f commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support USB RX aggregation for the newer chips commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support new chip RTL8192FU commit
wifi: rtw88: Add support for the SDIO based RTL8723DS chipset commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add basic chip information of 8851B commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add more chip_ops to support 8851b commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add to enable 8851BE commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: enable firmware features of hw_scan and crash_trigger commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: rfk: add more RF calibrations commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: update 8851b to improve abnormal samples commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: support U-NII-4 5.9GHz channels commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: support antenna diversity commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wwan: iosm: enable runtime pm support for 7560 commit
12.6. Audio
(FEATURED) Add MIDI 2.0 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
uapi: pcm: control the filling of the silence samples for drain commit
soundwire: qcom: add support for v2.0.0 controller commit
hda/cs8409: Support new Dell Dolphin Variants commit
hda/realtek: Add support for DELL Oasis 13/14/16 laptops commit
hda/realtek: Support ASUS G713PV laptop commit
hda/relatek: Enable Mute LED on HP 250 G8 commit
hda: Add Loongson LS7A HD-Audio support commit
rawmidi: UMP support commit
usb-audio: Add support for Mythware XA001AU capture and playback interfaces commit
Implement the new Virtual PCM Test Driver commit
ALSA: seq: Allow suppressing UMP conversions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: various improvements to the DSP-based mixer code commit, commit
soundwire: add support for ACE2.x commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: improvements mostly to the I/O routing mixers for E-MU cards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: refactoring of the playback voice management commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: various improvements to the DSP-based mixer code commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: improvements related to the switchable word clock of E-MU cards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: multi-channel playback related improvements commit, commit, commit
- ASoC
Add Google Chameleon v3 codec driver commit
Add Google Chameleon v3 i2s driver commit
Add support for Loongson I2S controller commit
Intel: ADL: Moving amp only boards into end of the table. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: machine driver updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Chameleon v3 ASoC audio commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: ADL: Enable HDMI-In capture feature support for non-I2S codec boards commit
Intel: soc-acpi-intel-mtl-match: add rt712 ID commit
Intel: soc-acpi-intel-tgl-match: add rt712 ID commit
Intel: sof-sdw: add Dell SKU 0B34 commit
sof_rt5682: Add mtl support RT1019P speaker commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add multi dailink support for a codec commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add new mapping for HP Spectre x360 commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add rt712 support commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add rt713 support commit
SOF: mediatek: add mt8188 audio support commit
add N cpus to M codecs dai link support commit
codecs: wsa884x: Add WSA884x family of speakers commit
fsl-asoc-card: add nau8822 support commit
jz4740-i2s: Add support for X1000 SoC commit
loongson: Add Loongson ASoC Sound Card Support commit
max98388: add amplifier driver commit
mediatek: common: soundcard driver add dai_fmt support commit
mediatek: mt8188-mt6359: support new board with nau88255 commit
rt722-sdca: Add RT722 SDCA driver commit
ssm3515: Add new amp driver commit
qcom: add display port module support. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: audioreach: add compress offload support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
amd: ps: add SoundWire support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: mtl: Enable multicore support commit, commit, commit, commit
12.7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
uinput: allow injecting event times commit
pwm-vibra: add support for enable GPIO commit
atmel_mxt_ts: support capacitive keys commit
- HID
nvidia-shield: Initial driver implementation with Thunderstrike support commit, commit, commit
logitech-hidpp: Add wired USB id for Logitech G502 Lightspeed commit
asus: Add support for ASUS ROG Z13 keyboard commit
asus: add keycodes for 0x6a, 0x4b, and 0xc7 commit
microsoft: Add rumble support to latest xbox controllers commit
i2c-hid: goodix: Add support for "goodix, no-reset-during-suspend" property commit
logitech-hidpp: Add USB and Bluetooth IDs for the Logitech G915 TKL Keyboard commit
apple: Option to swap only left side mod keys commit
intel-ish-hid: ipc: Add Arrow Lake PCI device ID commit
12.8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
Add AV1 uAPI commit
i2c: add ov01a10 image sensor driver commit
mediatek: vcodec: support stateless AV1 decoder commit
mediatek: vcodec: support stateless hevc decoder commit
mediatek: vcodec: Add debugfs file for decode and encode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rcar-isp: Add support for R-Car V4H commit
rcar-vin: Add support for R-Car V4H commit
uvcvideo: Enable Intel RealSense metadata for devices commit
AV1 stateless decoder for RK3588 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
venus: add support for 10 bit decoding commit, commit, commit, commit
media: vivid: Extend FPS rates offered by simulated webcam commit
12.9. Universal Serial Bus
(FEATURED) thunderbolt: Initial USB4 v2 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add sysfs entry for usb device state commit
Introduced new Cadence USBHS Driver commit, commit, commit, commit
cdns3: Add StarFive JH7110 USB driver commit
dwc3: core: add support for realtek SoCs custom's global register start address commit
meson: support Amlogic A1 USB OTG controller commit, commit, commit
serial: option: add LARA-R6 01B PIDs commit
serial: option: add Quectel EC200A module support commit
serial: option: support Quectel EM060K_128 commit
serial: simple: add Kaufmann RKS+CAN VCP commit
typec: add support for the nb7vpq904m Type-C Linear Redriver commit
typec: qcom: Add Qualcomm PMIC Type-C driver commit
typec: support Audio Accessory mode on FSA4480 commit, commit, commit
typec: tcpm: add get max power support commit
xhci: Add ZHAOXIN xHCI host U1/U2 feature support commit
xhci: tegra: enable stream protocol support commit
12.10. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
Add support for Renesas CSI commit
dw: Add 32 bpw support to SPI DW DMA driver commit
dw: Add compatible for Intel Mount Evans SoC commit
spi-qcom-qAdd DMA mode support commit
sun6i: add support for R329/D1/R528/T113s SPI controllers commit
Improve polling mode of s3c64xx driver commit, commit, commit, commit
spi: stm32: add spi device mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.11. Watchdog
sp5100_tco: support Hygon FCH/SCH (Server Controller Hub) commit
xilinx_wwdt: Add Versal window watchdog support commit
12.12. CPU Frequency scaling
armada-8k: add ap807 support commit
ti-cpufreq: Add support for AM62A7 commit
Enable amd-pstate active mode by default commit, commit, commit
12.13. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
supply: axp20x_usb_power: Add support for AXP192 commit
reset: qcom-pon: add support for pm8941-pon commit
supply: add Qualcomm PMI8998 SMB2 Charger driver commit
- regulator
Add Renesas PMIC RAA215300 driver commit
Add support for TI TPS6287x regulators commit
axp20x: Add AXP15060 support commit
axp20x: Add support for AXP313a variant commit
max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 Regulator Support commit
rk808: add rk806 support commit
tps6594-Add driver for TI TPS6594 regulators commit
12.14. Real Time Clock (RTC)
Add rtc driver for the Loongson family chips commit
isl1208: Add support for the built-in RTC on the PMIC RAA215300 commit
Remove the Loongson-1 RTC driver commit
12.15. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
at91-pio4: Enable Push-Pull configuration commit
axp209: Add support for GPIO3 on the AXP209 commit
intel: Add Intel Meteor Lake-S pin controller support commit
qcom: Add IPQ5018 pinctrl driver commit
qcom: Add SDX75 pincontrol driver commit
qcom: spmi-gpio: Add PM8953 support commit
rk805: Add rk806 pinctrl support commit
stm32: add stm32mp257 pinctrl support commit
tegra: Add Tegra234 pinmux driver commit
12.16. Multi Media Card (MMC)
mmci: Add support for SW busy-end timeouts commit
Update MMCI driver for STM32MP25 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Genesys Logic GL9767 support commit, commit, commit, commit
12.17. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
spinand: gigadevice: add support for GD5F2GQ5xExxH commit
spinand: macronix: Add support for serial NAND flash commit
rawnand: add basic sandisk manufacturer ops commit
rawnand: add support for the Sandisk SDTNQGAMA chip commit
12.18. Industrial I/O (iio)
adc: max77541: Add ADI MAX77541 ADC Support commit
adc: rockchip_saradc: Add support for RK3588 commit
imu: mpu6050: Add support for the ICM 20600 IMU commit
light: Add support for TI OPT4001 light sensor commit
light: ROHM BU27008 color sensor commit
magnetometer: st_accel: Add LSM303D commit
mlx90614: Add MLX90615 support commit
potentiometer: Add support for the Renesas X9250 potentiometers commit
pressure: Honeywell mprls0025pa pressure sensor commit
st_sensors: Add ACPI support for lsm303d to the LSM9DS0 IMU driver commit
st_sensors: Add lsm303d support to the LSM9DS0 IMU driver commit
12.19. Multi Function Devices (MFD)
axp20x: Add support for AXP192 commit
axp20x: Add support for AXP313a PMIC commit
max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 PMIC Support commit
rk8xx: Add rk806 support commit
tps65219: Add support for soft shutdown via sys-off API commit
12.20. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
mediatek: Add support for MT7981 commit
Add Renesas RZ/G2L MTU3a PWM driver commit
Add microchip soft ip corePWM driver commit
12.21. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
i801: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake SoC-S commit
i801: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake PCH-S commit
designware: Add driver support for Wangxun 10Gb NIC commit
12.22. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
corsair-psu: update Series 2022 and 2023 support commit
Add MAX31827 driver commit
Add HP WMI Sensors driver commit
aht10: Add support for compatible aht20 commit
aquacomputer_d5next: Add support for Aquacomputer Leakshield commit
asus-ec-sensors: add ROG Crosshair X670E Hero commit
corsair-psu: add support for reading PWM values and mode commit
it87: Allow for chips with only 4 temp sensors commit
nct6683: Add another customer ID for NCT6687D sensor chip on some MSI boards commit
nct6755: Add support for NCT6799D commit
oxp-sensors: Add AYANEO 2 and Geek models commit
oxp-sensors: Add new DMI match for OXP Mini commit
oxp-sensors: Add support for AOKZOE A1 PRO commit
oxp-sensors: Add tt_toggle attribute on supported boards commit
pmbus/max16601: Add support for new revisions of MAX16508 commit
sht3x: Add new non-stardard sysfs attribute commit
sht3x: add medium repeatability support commit
sht3x: complement sysfs interface for sts3x commit
12.23. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
aggregator: Support delay for setting up individual GPIOs commit
Add gpio delay driver commit
tps65219: add GPIO support for TPS65219 PMIC commit
mlxbf3: Add gpio driver support commit
12.24. Leds
Add AW20xx driver commit
Add Intel Cherry Trail Whiskey Cove PMIC LED driver commit
cht-wcove: Add support for breathing mode use hw_pattern sysfs API commit
flash: leds-qcom-flash: Add PMI8998 support commit
Introduce new LED hw control APIs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
leds-mt6323: Add support for MT6331 leds commit
leds-mt6323: Add support for WLEDs and MT6332 commit
qcom-lpg: Add support for PMI632 LPG commit
Add support for MT6331 and MT6332 LEDs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
trigger: netdev: expose hw_control status via sysfs commit
12.25. DMA engines
ti: k3-udma: Add support for J721S2 CSI BCDMA instance commit
dw-edma: Add HDMA DebugFS support commit
dw-edma: Add support for native HDMA commit
12.26. Cryptography hardware acceleration
ccp: Add support for PCI device 0x156E commit
ccp: Add support for PCI device 0x17E0 commit
octeontx2: add support for AF to CPT PF uplink mbox commit
starfive: Add drivers for crypto engine commit, commit, commit
12.27. PCI
pciehp: Simplify Attention Button logging commit
tegra194: Add interconnect support in Tegra234 commit
Add support for MHI Endpoint function driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
pci: Work around ASMedia ASM2824 PCIe link training failures commit, commit, commit
12.28. Clock
loongson1: Move PWM timer to clocksource framework commit
keystone: syscon-Add support for audio refclk commit
qcom: apss-ipq-pll: Add support for IPQ9574 commit
qcom: videocc-sm8550: Add video clock controller driver for SM8550 commit
ralink: add clock and reset driver for MTMIPS SoCs commit
samsung: Re-add support for Exynos4212 CPU clock commit
Add video clock controller driver for SM8450 commit, commit, commit
clk: qcom: sc8280xp: add lpasscc reset control commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add GCC and RPMHCC support for sdx75 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
add Amlogic A1 clock controller drivers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.29. PHY ("physical layer" framework)
cadence: salvo: add access for USB2PHY commit
Add debugfs files commit
hisilicon: Add inno-usb2-phy driver for Hi3798MV100 commit
mediatek: tphy: add debugfs files commit
qcom-qmp-usb: add support for updated qcm2290 / sm6115 binding commit
ti: gmii-sel: Add support for SGMII mode commit
phy: qcom-qmp-combo: Support orientation switching commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
arm64: qcom: sa8775p-ride: enable the first ethernet port commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
PHY: Add multilink DP support in Cadence Torrent PHY driver commit, commit, commit, commit
12.30. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)
amd64: Add support for ECC on family 19h model 60h-7Fh commit
amd64: Add support for AMD heterogeneous Family 19h Model 30h-3Fh commit
npcm: Add NPCM memory controller driver commit
12.31. Various
counter: i8254: Introduce the Intel 8254 interface library module commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: add accessory detection support commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: add usb_role_switch support commit
firmware: arm_scmi: Augment SMC/HVC to allow optional parameters commit
firewire: deliver hardware time stamp for asynchronous transaction commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
hwrng: cn10k - Add extended trng register support commit
iio: accel: st_accel: Add LSM303D commit
mailbox: tegra: add support for Tegra264 commit
mei: gsc_proxy: add gsc proxy driver commit
memory: atmel-sdramc: remove the driver commit
memory: tegra: Add memory clients for Tegra234 commit
memory: tegra: Add software memory clients in Tegra234 commit
nvmem: core: add support for fixed cells *layout* commit
nvmem: imx: support i.MX93 OCOTP commit
nvmem: rockchip-otp: Add support for RK3588 commit
regmap: Add debugfs file for forcing field writes commit
reset: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 reset driver support commit
reset: oxnas: remove obsolete reset driver commit
TI TPS6594 PMIC support (Core, ESM, PFSM) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
hwtracing: Improve PTT filter interface and some fixes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
tty: serial: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 serial driver support commit
vfio/pci-core: Add capability for AtomicOp completer support commit
vfio/pci: Support dynamic allocation of MSI-X interrupts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vfio/cdx: add support for CDX bus commit
Tegra234 Memory interconnect support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
memory: atmel-sdramc: remove the driver commit
clk: qcom: msm8996: add support for the CBF clock commit, commit, commit
Add support for HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU commit, commit, commit, commit
accel/habanalabs: add more debugfs stub helpers commit
- cxl
13. Pull requests
13.1. Other new sources
Phoronix Linux 6.5 Features